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Re: Gibson USA Connential Bass Case
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2009, 09:30:08 PM »
A case for a bass that never made it into production? Uwe will be intrigued since he never got the Continental he ordered.

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Re: Gibson USA Connential Bass Case
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2009, 06:47:10 AM »
The strange thing is it doesn't suprises me at all...

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Re: Gibson USA Connential Bass Case
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2009, 01:56:20 PM »
Well if he gets the case he's nearly there...  :mrgreen:

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Re: Gibson USA Connential Bass Case
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2009, 11:22:08 AM »
I don't know why they call them "Continental", but they are not. A couple of these have cropped up in the past, all of them nothing else but regular Lee Sklar cases. A Continental V in the envisaged shape would not fit the body compartment, its horns being too long. Moreover, when the Continental was scheduled to be introduced, Gibson had already switched from brown and pink to black and white cases. So the record remains that the only proof for the existence of at least one Continental prototype ever leaving Nashville is the one I saw and touched at the Frankfurt Musikmesse a couple of years ago. And that was probably put under the bandsaw (Scott?) when they decided to scrap the project.
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Re: Gibson USA Connential Bass Case
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2009, 11:24:46 AM »
Maybe the seller doesn't even mean Continental.
Connential isn't that close as a word ;D