Question about braces

[Eric Rene Roy]

Taking the cello comment very literally, huh? Had we been talking about body shapes then I could see your points as valid to my comment (I do agree with your points in general on this....they are valid Ken, just not to my comment). I think the bass I made for last years ISB competition was the smallest bass in the room, so you know I don't subscribe to the cello shape idea.

We are talking about graduations and theories about how we view the back plate to the top at this point. It is in this regard that I study cellos to make better sounding basses.

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Eric Rene Roy

Taking the cello comment very literally, huh? Had we been talking about body shapes then I could see your points as valid to my comment (I do agree with your points in general on this....they are valid Ken, just not to my comment). I think the bass I made for last years ISB competition was the smallest bass in the room, so you know I don't subscribe to the cello shape idea.

We are talking about graduations and theories about how we view the back plate to the top at this point. It is in this regard that I study cellos to make better sounding basses.

Ok, but are you referring to a braced Flatback? If so, we are talking Viols and not violin family instruments. I guess I missed in the reading there about your exact point. As soon as I read 'Cello' my back started to ache as if I was bear hugging a giant bass, lol.

[Eric Rene Roy]

I hear you. This one was a ***** to play, made by Hammond Ashley in 1984.

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

Ok, but are you referring to a braced Flatback?

No, I guess I wasn't. This thread has derailed a bit, I know the OP asked about flatback bracing and things just kinda morph...like a conversation, from that starting point.

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Eric Rene Roy

I hear you. This one was a ***** to play, made by Hammond Ashley in 1984.


No, I guess I wasn't. This thread has derailed a bit, I know the OP asked about flatback bracing and things just kinda morph...like a conversation, from that starting point.

What was the Back, round/carved or Flat with braces? It looks like a Violin with an endpin.

[Eric Rene Roy]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

What was the Back, round/carved or Flat with braces? It looks like a Violin with an endpin.

round...no braces...

[Thomas Erickson]

Originally Posted by Eric Rene Roy

I hear you. This one was a ***** to play, made by Hammond Ashley in 1984.

No, I guess I wasn't. This thread has derailed a bit, I know the OP asked about flatback bracing and things just kinda morph...like a conversation, from that starting point.

I think there's enough OT material in this thread to start a dozen more!

As long as we're at it, any idea if that HA bass was modeled after a "Prescott" that they used to have? I remember playing such a bass a number of times; a big, cello shaped beast that they were threatening to chop because nobody wanted it. I wanted it but didn't have the 20k they needed... I didn't even think it was so bad to play and protested the chopping, but what do I know.