Blockless..

[Sam Sherry]

Originally Posted by Arnold Schnitzer

If you look in the old turn-of-the-20th-century Sears catalogs you will see blockless basses for sale, and clearly marked "Made in Germany". . . . I think the "Tyrol" attribution is an American thing.

You're making sense (as usual).

I've said elsewhere that "Tyrolean" likely began as a businessman's effort to provide a waft of vaguely-Italian atmosphere to a non-Italian instrument.

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Sam Sherry

You're making sense (as usual).

I've said elsewhere that "Tyrolean" likely began as a businessman's effort to provide a waft of vaguely-Italian atmosphere to a non-Italian instrument.

Very possible and maybe also done to hide where they came from as well protecting the source. Thank's for posting Sam. I have read that thread. Very interesting.

[Ken Smith]

I went thru the last few years of Threads on Blockless basses and rather than merging them here, I thought it would be best to just post the links.

As you can see, some opinions given be me and others point to the Tirol but from new information gathered, some of them at least might be Bohemian instead. The Bohemian region encompasses most of the Czech Republic from the German border near Saxony and into Moravia with Prague being the old capitol of Bohemia.

Here are the other 'Blockless' Threads;

http://www.smithbassforums.com/showthread.php?t=265
http://www.smithbassforums.com/showthread.php?t=764
http://www.smithbassforums.com/showthread.php?t=1331
http://www.smithbassforums.com/showthread.php?t=1408
http://www.smithbassforums.com/showthread.php?t=1631
http://www.smithbassforums.com/showthread.php?t=2078