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uonra
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Username: uonra

Post Number: 4
Registered: 6-2008
Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 9:05 am:   Edit Post

ALWAYS INTERRESSING IN MEDIUM SCALE ALEMBIC or other bass
ON THE RIGHT PRICE
PLEASE CONTACT ME ON
claude.arnou@skynet.be
I'm from Brussel Belgium
kind regards
Claude
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1981
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - 2:56 am:   Edit Post

Hi Claude,

The distributor for the Benelux is Edwin van Huik in Hilversum. He often has second-hand Alembics. Here's his site.

There's a medium scale Distillate on the list for 2495 euro, which seems a bit pricey. The fretboard is scalloped from the 7th fret - Blackmore/Malmsteen style. That would be a deal-breaker for me.
georgie_boy
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Username: georgie_boy

Post Number: 552
Registered: 8-2005
Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - 6:11 am:   Edit Post

Can anyone tell me what the point is of scalloped fingerboard?

George
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1982
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - 6:19 am:   Edit Post

With the Malmsteen connection, perhaps fishy scales.
georgie_boy
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Username: georgie_boy

Post Number: 555
Registered: 8-2005
Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - 6:36 am:   Edit Post

LOL

Nice one Adriaan!
Still would like to know the purpose of the aforementioned.

G
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1983
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - 6:44 am:   Edit Post

From the dark recesses of my memory, something like: your fingers are less likely to stick to the fingerboard, especially when sweep-picking or shredding the aforementioned scales.
dadabass2001
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Username: dadabass2001

Post Number: 961
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - 4:56 pm:   Edit Post

John McLaughlin had a guitar with scalloped frets, purportedly to enable sitar-like quarter tone scales during the Mahavishnu Orchestra days. Billy Sheehan's bass has a partially scalloped board as well, maybe 8-10 high frets.

(and then my brain exploded from an overload of useless 1970s trivia)
uonra
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Username: uonra

Post Number: 5
Registered: 6-2008
Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 3:22 am:   Edit Post

Thanks, but I don't want a scalloped board.
Claude
darkstar01
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Username: darkstar01

Post Number: 128
Registered: 6-2005
Posted on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 3:22 am:   Edit Post

not that it matters, but i think the mclaughlin guitar you're talking about was the acoustic he used with shakti. could be wrong, though.

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