ID my beloved bass?

[Dennis McNutt]

I have added the additional images.

Please note that the darker and more brownish photos of the full bass show the color accurately. The more reddish and translucent ones don't, but they do show details. (The reddish photos were taken with a cell phone camera, while the others were taken on film and color calibrated via Kodak gray card by a professional lab.)

Here is the link to the high resolution photos:

http://profile.imageshack.us/user/dmcnutt/

After clicking on the thumbnail, a larger photo will appear. Clicking on it will bring up a much larger photo with considerable detail.

Thanks for any observations.

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Dennis McNutt

I have added the additional images.

Please note that the darker and more brownish photos of the full bass show the color accurately. The more reddish and translucent ones don't, but they do show details. (The reddish photos were taken with a cell phone camera, while the others were taken on film and color calibrated via Kodak gray card by a professional lab.)

Here is the link to the high resolution photos:

http://profile.imageshack.us/user/dmcnutt/

After clicking on the thumbnail, a larger photo will appear. Clicking on it will bring up a much larger photo with considerable detail.

Thanks for any observations.

These were posted last night before my reply. I saw them. I made my comments after looking at all 4 pages of these pics, navigating thru each one back and forth. Where can I send my bill?

[Ken Smith]

Besides the Label being a total fake and new, the period for Dini was about 50 years earlier and the town would be in Italian, not Latin. Many fakes made in eastern Europe show up with Latinized Label writing to look possibly fancy or indisputable as the 'old' language. Makers in those time were often not the most literate people and spelling by themselves of their own names varied on occasion.

Forget about that Label being anything in name related to the bass. The only relation it has is in the attempt to defraud the buyer.

[Dennis McNutt]

Ken,

Thanks for your observations.

[Steve Alcott]

How does it sound?

[Dennis McNutt]

I know of no way to evaluate the sound objectively. I love the sound.

[Steve Alcott]

If it makes a sound you like, then it's a good bass for you.