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gerarddem
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Username: gerarddem

Post Number: 6
Registered: 12-2009
Posted on Sunday, December 06, 2009 - 2:59 pm:   Edit Post

It may be the only Alembic double-neck 4-stringbass/6-string guitar in existence! In any case, Alembic did an outstanding job... including inlaying my initials, "G de M" in the headstock of the bass!

Circa 1980 Double-Neck 4-stringbass/6-string guitar
Body
Headstocks
Initials Inlay
Back
elwoodblue
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Username: elwoodblue

Post Number: 917
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Sunday, December 06, 2009 - 3:18 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks for the great pics...nice touch having the humcancelling pickup hidden.

I see what you mean with the case, it looks like a small bed!
peace,
Kris
gerarddem
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Username: gerarddem

Post Number: 11
Registered: 12-2009
Posted on Sunday, December 06, 2009 - 3:43 pm:   Edit Post

I had to get an extra hotel room for when I traveled with it! 9-)

I only played it for two gigs in New York and then put it away. It has been sitting in that red coffin for the last 29 years... unplayed ...untouched ...unloved!
elwoodblue
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Username: elwoodblue

Post Number: 919
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Sunday, December 06, 2009 - 3:47 pm:   Edit Post

I have an 80's Aria pro doubleneck (guitar/bass)
that needs more lovin' too...I'll have to pull her from the depths of the closet.
thanks for the inspiration : )
tmoney61092
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Username: tmoney61092

Post Number: 288
Registered: 9-2008
Posted on Sunday, December 06, 2009 - 3:48 pm:   Edit Post

i can see where it would be a pain to lug around and even play, but i would definitly play her sitting down

~Taylor Watterson
gerarddem
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Username: gerarddem

Post Number: 13
Registered: 12-2009
Posted on Sunday, December 06, 2009 - 4:01 pm:   Edit Post

When I played it sitting down... I looked like Kilroy... just my eyes peeking over the top and my arms protruding around it... 9-)

But what an instrument to play!
sonicus
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Username: sonicus

Post Number: 558
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Sunday, December 06, 2009 - 4:14 pm:   Edit Post

Cool !
artswork99
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Username: artswork99

Post Number: 924
Registered: 7-2007
Posted on Sunday, December 06, 2009 - 6:24 pm:   Edit Post

Very, very nice! Welcome to the forum Gerard.
gerarddem
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Username: gerarddem

Post Number: 16
Registered: 12-2009
Posted on Sunday, December 06, 2009 - 6:42 pm:   Edit Post

Thank you Art! ...and you too Wolf!

I really wish I had a better idea of how much my 1980 bubinga Series I guitar would fetch (I have it listed in the "for sale" area under Series I)... I want to sell it ASAP...

Kris (Elwood) was nice enough to give me his idea... he said ballpark $2,500-$3,000+ but he also said it may fetch more.

I already have one person interested and asking me what I want for it...

<sigh> trying to do the right thing for my wife and 4 sons... don't want to wait too long and don't want to give it away either...

(don't want to part with it at all but... have to make some sacrifices for my new vocation) 9-)
cozmik_cowboy
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Username: cozmik_cowboy

Post Number: 608
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Sunday, December 06, 2009 - 7:26 pm:   Edit Post

Wow - I don't think I've ever seen a bass-guitar doubleneck with the bass on top. Very nice instrument (& the bubinga guitar is yummy, too).

Peter
gerarddem
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Username: gerarddem

Post Number: 19
Registered: 12-2009
Posted on Monday, December 07, 2009 - 7:03 am:   Edit Post

Thanks Coz...

I was the bass player for AMERICADE at the time... but the band was morphing from more of a "Chicago"-type unit (complete with horns) to a 4-piece Van Halen-style rock band... and our original guitarist wasn't interested in going for the ride... so I had to learn how to play the guitar... basically on stage... lol!

"Leviathon" as this instrument was named, was the instrument I needed to play during the transition... I only played it for a few months, then, along with my Bubinga "Dark Baby", they were both retired... never to see the light of day again for 29 years... until I took the photos of them yesterday...
hieronymous
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Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 683
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 - 4:48 pm:   Edit Post

Meant to post before - sweet doubleneck! I am a fellow doubleneck owner, though mine is a fretless 4 string paired with a short-scale 6-string bass which is currently tuned "baritone" (between bass and guitar, starting on A). Space is definitely an issue - I moved into a smaller house, and the case definitely takes up a lot of real estate...

Glad to see yours resurrected!

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