Helen McIntosh 2026

Price: $32,500

Description:

• This is Helen's latest bass and it’s a beauty!

• 41” string length

• The top is made from spruce. The back, sides, and scroll are made from walnut. The back is flat - 8 3/4” at the bottom tapering to 5 1/2” at the neck.

• The bass has a rich, projecting sound and is very easy to play.

• 42 1/2” body length, 19 1/4” upper bout, 14” C bout, 25 1/2” lower bout

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Robbie McIntosh, 1/2 size Bernadel model, 2022

Price: $27,500

Description:

• This is Robbie's 15th bass. 

• 36 7/8” string length

• The top is made from spruce. The back and sides are made from birdseye maple. 

• The bass has a surprisingly full, robust sound for a 1/2 size and is very easy to play.

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Robbie McIntosh, Busan Model, 2019

Price: $35,000

Description:

• This is Robbie's 13th bass. 

• The top is made from slab cut, eastern white pine that came from floorboards in a home in Greenwich, NY, that was built in 1785. The back, sides, and scroll are made from cherry. 

• This bass has just come back from Robbie’s shop. He slightly altered the graduations in the top and took a lot of wood out of the back. The result was dramatic. The bass is now louder and has an even fuller, rounder low end. The tonal density is still there and it projects beautifully. It also plays softly with ease.

• The bass:

  • comes with an ebony fingered C extension with 4 gates

  • 41 1/2” string length

  • upper bouts 20 1/4”, C bouts 15”, lower bouts 26 5/8”

  • rib depth 7 7/8”, back length 44”

  • is a copy of a 1749 Domenico Busan

  • was entered into the makers competition at the 2019 ISB Convention at Indiana University and won a Certificate of Merit for Tone

  • has that typical Venetian sound quality

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