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navbass
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Username: navbass

Post Number: 1
Registered: 4-2006
Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 9:15 am:   Edit Post

I bought this bass at a shop in Ochanomizu, Tokyo. Paid about 100,000 yen for it. I wasn't able to ascertain much about it from the people at the shop (language barrier). I'd like to know a little bit about the history of it.

serial #88H5110

Thanks,
Richard Bruns
88H5110

(Message edited by navbass on April 16, 2006)

(Message edited by navbass on April 17, 2006)
mica
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Username: mica

Post Number: 3284
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Tuesday, May 02, 2006 - 6:40 pm:   Edit Post

Hi Richard,

Here is what I found out about your bass:

88H5110 HMB4 Elan 4-string bass

top: Quilted Maple
body: Rock Maple
neck: Maple and Purpleheart, 32" medium scale
fingerboard: Ebony with pearloid ovals, custom size 1.650 x 2.323
pickups: JZ
controls: a little confusion here*
output: Mono, face mounted
originally made for: Rokkomann, Kobe, Japan
birthday: not recorded, but in October 1988

It looks like it was a custom order. The pickup position is custom, the fingerboard width is custom, and there is a special instruction on the work order to "make the neck EXACTLY the same as the fingerboard width" at the neck to body joint.

*As for the controls, the work order states it is a 2 volume, 1 filter setup. The "wood card" says it is a volume, filter, pan, Q setup. The picture looks more like the two volume set up. Let me know for sure so I can ammend to file to not be amiguous.
navbass
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Username: navbass

Post Number: 8
Registered: 4-2006
Posted on Friday, May 12, 2006 - 12:05 am:   Edit Post

It is a 2 volume, 1 filter setup, no Q.

Thanks for the info!

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