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richbass939
Junior
Username: richbass939

Post Number: 28
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Monday, December 06, 2004 - 8:22 pm:   Edit Post

I'll try to get the pics to work this time.

Rich

(Message edited by richbass939 on December 07, 2004)
richbass939
Junior
Username: richbass939

Post Number: 29
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Monday, December 06, 2004 - 8:42 pm:   Edit Post

Sorry, everyone. I'll try it again.
Rich



(Message edited by richbass939 on December 08, 2004)
richbass939
Junior
Username: richbass939

Post Number: 30
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Monday, December 06, 2004 - 8:47 pm:   Edit Post

Sorry, people. I'm sure making a mess here. Mica is working with me. I'm sure the pics are on their way soon.
Rich

(Message edited by richbass939 on December 07, 2004)
mica
Moderator
Username: mica

Post Number: 2163
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 1:23 pm:   Edit Post

See if I have any better luck with these images:

Rich's Epic

room full o' music

richbass939
Junior
Username: richbass939

Post Number: 31
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 2:11 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks, Mica, for the help getting these pictures to post. The top one is my Epic (95W9177) and my old Rickenbacker combo amp. The bottom one shows most of our collection of instruments. Soon I'll get a picture of the flesh 'n' blood family with some basses.
Rich
bracheen
Senior Member
Username: bracheen

Post Number: 635
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 3:35 pm:   Edit Post

Wow! Great collection. Did you say that your father in law made the violins? Did he make the cello and bass as well?
It's been a while since an Epic was posted here, very nice.
richbass939
Junior
Username: richbass939

Post Number: 32
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 4:05 pm:   Edit Post

My father-in-law made some of the violins. He has made 53 violins and 1 viola since the late '40s. The last one he made was for our younger son, started in 1997, the year he was born. He also made one for our older son, started in 1994 (the year he was born), and one for my wife (the year she was born, which wasn't that long ago). He'll be 92 in February so it's about time he hung it up.
You can see the viola (barely) in front of the cello. We have a Juzek violin from around 1910, an August Glass from the 1830s, an Italian violin from the 1770s, and a few others that he didn't make. He wanted to make a cello for my wife when she was a teenager but discovered that the clamps he would need would cost more than a decent cello. The only label in it says that it was repaired in Denver in the 1950s. It has a great tone. The bass is German, circa 1910. It was a real find, a great deal. But, man, are those things exhausting to play. They absolutely kill your forearms and hands if you don't stay in shape. I really respect those big band upright players.
Rich



(Message edited by richbass939 on December 08, 2004)
locutusofborg10
Member
Username: locutusofborg10

Post Number: 56
Registered: 11-2002
Posted on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 6:17 pm:   Edit Post

Rich;
That's some collection you have. The Epic looks almost exactly like mine. Please post again when you get the 5 string.

Peter
57basstra
Advanced Member
Username: 57basstra

Post Number: 381
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 3:42 pm:   Edit Post

Love the pics. Love the fiddles, I mean violins.

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