Baliol Bass-Made in the UK

[MattDenney]

Yes, that does look like the bass.

I am not going to go to school and say, ''look, that bass you have had for the past 20 years is actually a sort after very highly prized gem of an instrument, so I am going to offer you £25 000 for it'' or offer them hundreds. If the bass might be worth my while getting and taking to my local professional bass restorer to get completely overhauled for £1000 then I will say, ''I need a bass, can I have the schools bass if I offer you £100 or so, seen as no one plays it now and you have two'' the other being an old Boosey and Hawkes ply bass. Its just a way of getting an instrument, as school doesn't know a £30 000 bass from a £1000 bass, so I could get lucky. Im not too sure whether it is a ply bass, as it looks as a whole to be solid, but the ribs feel quite thin. The edges of the F holes have been painted black.

On closer inspection now after scraping a little of the black paint on a discrete part of an F hole, it appears that the bass is actually made of ply.

Here are some pictures anyway...

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2136.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2134.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2133.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2131.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2130.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2129.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2127.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2125.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2119.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2118.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2116.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2115.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2113.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2112.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2111.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2110.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...y/IMG_2109.jpg

Cheers,
Matt