| Author | Message | ||
| Steve Wood (s_wood)
Junior Username: s_wood Post Number: 23 Registered: 5-2002 |
Here's something you don't see every day...a 34" scale small body Series I fretless. http://www.bunnybass.com/museum/basses/alem_76.shtml | ||
| Dave Houck (davehouck)
New Username: davehouck Post Number: 8 Registered: 5-2002 |
Very nice bass. And that certainly look like a reasonable price for such a unique instrument. Thanks for posting this. Dave | ||
| Mark Avnet (mavnet)
New Username: mavnet Post Number: 1 Registered: 2-2003 |
Interesting - the bunnybass site said only 8 basses were made with 3/4 size bodies and full scale necks - I must have 2 of them, made for me in 77. A fretted and a fretless... They seem pretty well balanced to me... i'll post some pictures of them when i take some... very unique and pretty instruments... Mark | ||
| Mica Wickersham (mica)
Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 706 Registered: 6-2000 |
The bass on Bunny Bass isn't a 3/4 body - it's the Small Standard. I'm very curious to see your 3/4 sized basses from 1977 - I didn't realize we made any before 1984. | ||
| Michael Delacerda (dela217)
Member Username: dela217 Post Number: 94 Registered: 6-2002 |
This is odd to me too. I have owned 2 long scale basses with the small standard body. They were both from 1976. I also know of one other in the New Orleans area in that configuration. I was told that there were only 7 made in this configuration. There must have been more. Unless I have seen all 7! These were very neck heavy and that is why Alembic no longer does this. I didn't mind the weight personally, but I did not care for the long scale. I just have a small reach. That is why I now prefer a medium scale with a small standard body. | ||
| Mark Avnet (mavnet)
New Username: mavnet Post Number: 2 Registered: 2-2003 |
Very likely that I'm wrong - i was going by the shape of the body (the symetric horns, like the one on the bunny bass site), and in my excitement I think i saw 34" as 3/4... okay, so I'm a dufus. But I do have 2 of them thangs, small standard, long scale, I suppose - 77 850 (fretted) and 77 861 (actually, it's hard to read the numbers on this one - are they anywhere else on the instrument other than the headstock?) which is a fretless... and they are amazing, after all these years. Photos soon, now that I've found the alembic club, I'm getting jazzed about this stuff again. | ||
| Mark Avnet (mavnet)
New Username: mavnet Post Number: 3 Registered: 2-2003 |
Okay, here's a link to some photos.. I'll do an introduction soon and add this link... http://www.markavnet.com/alembic_basses.htm |
