Helen McIntosh, 5/8 size, Piattellini Model, 2024

Price: ***Sold*** (that didn’t last long!)

Description:

• This is Helen’s second bass and the sound is even better than the first. 

• 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. Robbie used this wood on his fantastic Busan copy. The back, sides, and scroll are made of black cherry.

• The bass:

  • has a 39 1/2” string length

  • is a copy of a bass by Alvisio Piattellini, ca. 1791

  • was part of the Celebrating Women Luthiers Exhibit 2024

  • has a deep and projecting tone from top to bottom and is very easy to play

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Robbie McIntosh, 7/8 size, Piattellini Model, 2025

Price: $40,000

Description:

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. Robbie used this wood on his fantastic Busan copy and other Piattellini models. The back ands sides are made from slab cut cherry.

• The bass:

  • 41” string length, 42 3/4” body length, 8” rib depth, 20 1/2” upper bout, 14” center bout, 26 1/4” lower bout

  • copy of a bass by Alvisio Piattellini

  • has a big, fat sound that projects well and despite being a big bass is very easy to play

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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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