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flaxattack
Advanced Member
Username: flaxattack

Post Number: 290
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 6:07 pm:   Edit Post

can dream
Pöllmann 3/4 Busseto 4 string with full ornaments


(Message edited by flaxattack on December 09, 2004)
flaxattack
Advanced Member
Username: flaxattack

Post Number: 291
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 6:14 pm:   Edit Post


only 16K
palembic
Senior Member
Username: palembic

Post Number: 1821
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 11:04 pm:   Edit Post

I am dreaming WITH you Jeff
ooohmawgo-od ...What a bass!
Love the "keys"!!!

Paul the bad one
rami
Senior Member
Username: rami

Post Number: 429
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, December 10, 2004 - 7:44 am:   Edit Post

That is absolutely magnificent!

I sometimes wish I'd never picked up an electric Bass - (at least a fretted one). I play fretless almost exclusively these days. There's nothing like the smooth gliding transitions on a fretless fingerboard or an upright.
flaxattack
Advanced Member
Username: flaxattack

Post Number: 295
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Friday, December 10, 2004 - 9:23 am:   Edit Post

i learned how to play bass on an upright when i was 10 yrs old. val keeps asking me to try the TI jazz flatwounds. i just ordered a set before we get to stringing up the direwolf. the rap is that they sound a lot like an upright
flaxattack
Advanced Member
Username: flaxattack

Post Number: 296
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Friday, December 10, 2004 - 9:27 am:   Edit Post

i remember dragging it on a city bus to take it home from school on the weekends and after i learned to drive trying to fit in in my car...oh the good ole days!
i did try an ashbory and the sound was extremely comparable to an upright- but the darn thing would never stay in tune
richbass939
Junior
Username: richbass939

Post Number: 36
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Friday, December 10, 2004 - 10:08 pm:   Edit Post

That is a beautiful bass. The detail is wonderful without being too much.
My father-in-law has a 5-volume Encyclopedia of Violins and Violin Makers. If you want I will look up the maker and see what they say about him. It would probably take me a week or two to get the books. If you want me to, tell me any more info you have about it, like Pollmann's first name, or the year it was made, or the town it was made in. Sometimes (especially in the old days) you would have several generations of makers with the same last name. It can be impossible to tell much from the last name only. Some family members were masters while others were only so-so. If the info on the Pollmann who made it is lengthy and others don't want it posted here I could E-mail it to you if that's okay.
Rich
davehouck
Senior Member
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 1087
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Saturday, December 11, 2004 - 7:13 am:   Edit Post

Rich; I think I found it. This looks like the company web site:
http://www.poellmann-bass.de/
And this would appear to be the Busseto model that Flax wishes to have delivered to his doorstep:
http://www.poellmann-bass.de/basses/busseto/main.htm
So if you are able to find more about the history of this company, I'm sure many of us would find it interesting.
flaxattack
Advanced Member
Username: flaxattack

Post Number: 301
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 11:15 pm:   Edit Post

this is close as i get= my eko
lbpesq
Intermediate Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 188
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 11:50 pm:   Edit Post

Looks like McCartney's Hofner's older brother. Very cool!

Bill, tgo
flaxattack
Advanced Member
Username: flaxattack

Post Number: 302
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 6:02 am:   Edit Post

you can steal one on ebay

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