German bass, ca. 1910

Price: $9,500 ***New Price!***

Description:

This is a big bass (with a sound to match) but the string length is an ideal 41 1/2”. The bass comes with a Kolstein cover and Realist pickup. At this price, it’s a steal!

44” body length, 20.5” upper bouts, 15” C bouts, 27.5” lower bouts, ribs 8 1/4”

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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

Description:

• 42” string length and a D neck is achieved with the addition of a false nut.

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

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