Paesold "A. Schroetter" hybrid bass

Price: $1,500

This is a good sounding hybrid bass that has a nice, rich sound with good projection. It’s not a tubby sounding bass like many of the inexpensive laminated basses. It’s a very good condition and has had a complete setup done, including nut, bridge, fingerboard, and soundpost.

Description:

• The bass has a carved spruce top. The ribs and back are laminated.

  • 41 1/2” string length

• The bass comes with:

  • a quality cover

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G.W. Brown (USA) ca. 1950

Price: ***Sale Pending***

Description:

• Labeled G.W. Brown, USA this bass has a repair label from 1966 and was also repaired by Joseph Regh in 1995.

• 41 3/4” string length, D neck

• Fully carved 3/4 sized bass

• The bass comes with a soft cover and a French bow.

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Bohemian Bass (ca. 1920)

Price: ***In restoration. This bass is being converted to a baroque bass with maple fingerboard, gut frets and strings.***

Description:

• Another fine Czech or German bass from the early part of the 20th century. There is a lot of depth and punch to this bass! The bass comes with a padded bag.

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Alter-Ego Contrabasso

Price: $10,000 New

Alter-Ego is no longer making the Contrabbasso as the luthier who made them has retired. This is the last one and we are selling it at the old price and including a Travel Case that is an $890 value. The travel case allows you to carry the bass in a plane as cargo. The original price was $12,000.

Description:

• The Alter-Ego Contrabasso:

  • comes with a pickup with buffered line-out

  • 40 1/2” string length, 41 1/2” body length 

  • upper bouts - 19”, C bouts - 13 3/4, lower bout - 25 3/4”, ribs - 7”

• The bass comes with:

  • a high-quality padded cover

  • can be packed away in a durable and light travel case, assembly and disassembly takes minutes

  • an option is a newly designed tailpiece (patent pending) that allows you to easily tune the after length of each string.

• This instrument has a removable neck that, after removing the upper right rib, fits inside the body and attaches to a fixture that connects to the neck block. Setting the soundpost is done by simply reaching through the open rib and placing the soundpost on the registration marks. 

  Contrabbasso assembly/dis-assembly instructions

• And here is a video of my colleague, Mitch Moehring, showing how to disassemble and pack the Contrabbasso.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtXwDKnOg0E&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1SOgl-kpv5-Q5jBnqimzDX4YviNLdgT-Y4f7Xcpfudenu-ob_d5Toa1hQ

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Bohemian Bass (ca. 1930)

Price: $6,000 ***New Price!***

Description:

• 42 1/8” string length, between D and Eb neck

• Another fine Czech or German bass from the early part of the 20th century. Set up with new Spirocors this bass has a lot of punch. A great all around bass! The bass comes with a padded bag.

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Bohemian Bass (ca. 1910)

Price: Under Restoration

Description:

• Here is a nice 7/8 size German bass with an extended nut that allows for a shorter 40 3/4" string length. It also has a fingered C extension with Anzelotti capos. This bass has a full, deep sound with good projection. It comes with a Deluxe Mooradian cover and a wheel.

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