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The Forum: Talk about nonubiquitous upright basses
Re: looking for ampeg baby bass Pasquale Cosco 07 Sep 2002 07:01 GMT
Re: looking for ampeg baby bass François Blais 06 Sep 2002 23:49 GMT
looking for ampeg baby bass Pasquale Cosco 06 Sep 2002 14:36 GMT
Re: Cheap upright François Blais 24 Aug 2002 18:29 GMT
Cheap upright Sam Hertz 24 Aug 2002 17:39 GMT
Re: Fender P bass to Upright François Blais 10 Jul 2002 15:14 GMT
Fender P bass to Upright Joe Jauregui 09 Jul 2002 22:44 GMT
Re: Availability in Canada François Blais 07 Jun 2002 00:30 GMT
Availability in Canada Aleks 03 Jun 2002 18:13 GMT
Re: FW: EUB for sale Tom 29 May 2002 21:29 GMT
Re: building a metal eub todd 25 May 2002 17:28 GMT
Re: building a metal eub François Blais 23 May 2002 01:24 GMT
Re: building a metal eub todd 22 May 2002 19:29 GMT
I think there's a reason why we don't see metal EUBs...
I'm not a specialist, but I think there are several cons:
- Weight (you'd probably need to use a very light metal if you don't want your instrument to be heavy. Aluminum maybe?) But it may be quite expensive and not easy to work.
- I think you should avoid screws as much as possible. Aluminum is not easy to solder.
- The delay of propagation of sound in metal is much higher than in wood I think, and this may be a problem. (this is not the same thing as strings, and anyway, IMO, organic material in strings is much better! Re: gut strings.
I once had an Original Baby Bass with a cast aluminum bridge, and this was a disaster. The first thing I did was to replace it with a maple bridge!
HTH,
François
I'm not a specialist, but I think there are several cons:
- Weight (you'd probably need to use a very light metal if you don't want your instrument to be heavy. Aluminum maybe?) But it may be quite expensive and not easy to work.
- I think you should avoid screws as much as possible. Aluminum is not easy to solder.
- The delay of propagation of sound in metal is much higher than in wood I think, and this may be a problem. (this is not the same thing as strings, and anyway, IMO, organic material in strings is much better! Re: gut strings.
I once had an Original Baby Bass with a cast aluminum bridge, and this was a disaster. The first thing I did was to replace it with a maple bridge!
HTH,
François
building a metal eub todd 21 May 2002 22:47 GMT
ampeg baby bass lionel 05 May 2002 21:34 GMT
Re: Baby bass repair François Blais 27 Apr 2002 00:13 GMT
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