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Main Forums => The Bass Zone => Topic started by: ack1961 on August 22, 2012, 11:58:59 AM
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Don't know if its taboo to post this here or not, but there is someone selling off their bass collection on TB.
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f126/huge-bass-sale-everything-must-go-910133/
I don't know him or the circumstances behind the sale, but here's the list from his thread:
1). Modulus Flea 4 in Gold Sparkle, matching headstock, OBP – 3 preamp. Purchased in July 2012. Serial number 120160, $1,500
2). Modulus Flea 4 in Purple Sparkle, matching headstock, OBP – 1 preamp. Purchased in 2009. Serial number 080200, $1,250
3). Modulus VJ 4 in three tone sunburst, OBP – 3 preamp, purchased in February 2012. Serial number 100102, $1,500
4). Modulus Quantum 4, OBP 3 – preamp, purchased in 2010, serial number 100096, $1,750
5). USA Lakland 4-94, blue quilt top, purchased in February 2012, serial number 966, $2,250
6). Ken Smith BSRGN4, sycamore top, purchased in August 2012, serial number 4GN6198F12, $3,250
7). Fodera VW Classic, Victor Wooten’s signature on the headstock, serial number M43020D, $6,000
8). Fodera Monarch in Yin/Yang, Holly/Ebony top, serial number M43218D, $8,500
9). Fodera Imperial in Matt Garrison shape, New Pope Preamp installed, serial number MG43059N, $8,000
10). Pedulla Nuance, redwood top, purchased in February 2012, serial number 9630, $1,750
11). Music Man Stingray Premiere Dealer Network, gold fleck in white paint, purchased in February 2012, serial number 49649, $1,500
12). Status Level 42, 30th Anniversary Bass, #8 of 42 made, LED’s on Front and Side (green and red/red), purchased in August 2012, $4,000
13). Fender Marcus Miller Jazz in Olympic White. Professional installation of Bartolini TC3 preamp (Marcus Miller’s one). Purchased in August 2011. No case, but will ship with a gig bag. $900
14). Sadowsky Metro Will Lee Edition. Drop D tuner, mid range tone boost. Soft shell Sadowsky case. Purchased in February 2012. Serial number M4363. $2,000
15). Ritter Bass, hand made for me (says so on the head stock). Serial #940. http://www.ritter-instruments.com/item_info.php?i=519 $2,500
16). Ritter Bass, hand made for me (says so on the headstock). Serial # 1016. http://www.ritter-instruments.com/item_info.php?i=520 $2750
17). Music Man StingRay H, blue, serial #F85574, purchased August 2012, $850
18). Music Man Stingray HS, serial #E69014, purchased August 2012, $950
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If I wasn't supposed to post this on LBO, then delete it and send me the bill.
Steve
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I'm wondering if this is the guy in Atlanta whose LeCompte I tried. The Atlanta Bass Gallery used to consign some items from this guy, from what the owner told me. I guess this guy's living room is one of those two-tiered display units.
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Okay to post it, but the For Sale section is for your own gear. Moving to the Bass Zone.
For the ones I know about, prices seem reasonable. You have to wonder how many people will bite in this economy though. I wish him luck.
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I still don't understand the appeal of some of those bass styles. But, since I am not going to buy any of them, I don't have to!
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to me the list looks typical for a bucks up, bass player reading tber. ;D
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I was gonna say, terrible "do gooder", "bass teacher's pet", "I'm a serious musician" collection. Probably drives a hybrid too.
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The collection I heard about (it's the Ritters that make me wonder) was a guy who loved basses, couldn't play, but was also terminally ill. At the time I was in Atlanta, some basses were on consignment to help cover medical expenses.
Ain't I a buzzkill? :-\
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so is this the same guy?
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I don't think we know where this collection is located, so can't really say.
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I was gonna say, terrible "do gooder", "bass teacher's pet", "I'm a serious musician" collection. Probably drives a hybrid too.
...all four stringers- that's kinda odd.
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The collection I heard about (it's the Ritters that make me wonder) was a guy who loved basses, couldn't play, but was also terminally ill. At the time I was in Atlanta, some basses were on consignment to help cover medical expenses.
Ain't I a buzzkill? :-\
I think I know who you're talking about- he was selling a bunch of stuff over there not too long ago. I think this might be a different seller. That other guy had some really interesting/unusual stuff - Carl Thompsons, couple Spellbinders (one shortie, one long scale IIRC), some cool Birdsongs (never played one, but I kinda like the look of some of them)... I remember checking out some of his listings - think his handle there is CTBirdsong, or something to that effect.
It's always interesting to me to see peoples collections, and what motivates them. For whatever reason, my tastes have always drawn me to the "mass-produced oddballs" ;D
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A little searching shows an Ernest Howard with that email address is listed as member of a tennis center in Windsor, CO (near Greeley).
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I think I know who you're talking about- he was selling a bunch of stuff over there not too long ago. I think this might be a different seller. That other guy had some really interesting/unusual stuff - Carl Thompsons, couple Spellbinders (one shortie, one long scale IIRC), some cool Birdsongs (never played one, but I kinda like the look of some of them)... I remember checking out some of his listings - think his handle there is CTBirdsong, or something to that effect.
I bought a Gene Simmons Punisher bass off that guy. Strange to see him selling that one in the middle of all the bouticky basses.
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A little searching shows an Ernest Howard with that email address is listed as member of a tennis center in Windsor, CO (near Greeley).
Well, shucky-durns. That's about 15 minutes down the road from here...
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Hey....how do the string stay in the grommets on that Ritter?
Oh....I found it...strange slotted top load grommets on the face.
http://www.ritter-instruments.com/bridge.php
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the pickups look drunk on that one though im sure its a rigorously scientific placement.
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the pickups look drunk on that one though im sure its a rigorously scientific placement.
I'll bet it captures every tonal nuance known to mankind. ;)
Not really making fun of it, though. I've seen a lot uglier boutique basses than the Ritters.
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I find those slanted pups on the Ritters irritating too, sometimes they are not even parallel. I know, form follows function and there is a reason for slanting them, but my eyes don't agree with it even if my ears might. Somehow, that was best done on a Victory where it was mirrored by the shape of the pickguard. I liked it there and pretty much nowhere else. Of course, most boutique basses shun pick guards.
I've never played a Ritter - visually they always remind me of the guitars Prince would play in the eighties. Not my cup of tea at all. Artsy-fartsy. Not even really German design too, because they tend to be overdecorated and -embellished, the shapes too playful. He must be a Renaissance Italian in truth.
I like it if a bass retains visually something "industrial", I find the raised center block of a TBird Rev (though that came about by accident to cut the weight) is such an "industrialist" feature.
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Not even really German design too, because they tend to be overdecorated and -embellished, the shapes too playful.
German high baroque architecture.
(http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae241/cata1d0/ME/GermanHighBaroque.jpg)
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:mrgreen: Did I tell you how baroque style leaves me cold? Very much - with the exception of Bavaria maybe - a protestant thing as regards churches (look at all those usually dead-serious, frugal protestants shunning all earthly delights and then going overboard in decorating their churches, tsk, tsk, tsk ....) in Germany, Catholic churches tend(ed) to be Gothic or Roman style unless they are modernistic. Agnostic as I am, I visit churches (baroque, Roman, Gothic or other) a lot for the historical and cultural influence ingrained in them.
I should have been more precise, I meant German industrial design, which often enough doesn't look Ritter'ish at all:
(http://www.krisenkommandokraefte.de/intern/fahrzeuge/koenigstiger-005.jpg)
I just saw one of those beasts in real life in the German Tank Museum in Munster.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/IMG-20120826-00311.jpg)
Basically, it is a stationary gun platform and not a tank anymore. Its horespower is outright meek: 700 hp at a combat weight of 70 tons, a bicycle does better in ratio! It guzzled 1,000 liters of gasoline (no diesel tanks with the German Reich as gasoline could be extracted from coal, but oil couldn't) at a 100 km distance and that wasn't even cross-country, no wonder so many of them were left by the wayside in the Battle of the Bulge having run out of gas before reaching the desired US petrol supplies. Sure, no Allied tank or anti-tank gun could crack the Kingtiger's armored front, but this monster was as far removed from Blitzkrieg tactics as a North Sea oil platform is from a speed boat. Impressive sight seeing it in real nontheless. And I always liked the edgy angular styling (for ballistic reasons after the predecessor Tiger I had failed in that department due to its rounded and vertical outside).
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I should have been more precise, I meant German industrial design, which often enough doesn't look Ritter'ish at all:
(http://www.krisenkommandokraefte.de/intern/fahrzeuge/koenigstiger-005.jpg)
Reminds me more of Peavey's tank.
(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz62/ack1961/Music/DSCF4836.jpg)
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"now give me a little bass with those 88's".
taken from the capitals song, "cool jerk".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JstR-84miaY&feature=fvst
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Yes, the T-40 not only has a name like a tank ... No German armored shell could have pierced the bridge of a T-40!!! :mrgreen:
Lovely bass, I really like mine. And those electronics that allow you to dial from single coil to humbucking are outright smart and pretty much one-of-a-kind. The "Un-Ritter" (which are mostly active, another thing that bugs me about them).
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German high baroque architecture.
(http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae241/cata1d0/ME/GermanHighBaroque.jpg)
That ceiling is both high and Barque ;)
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German high baroque architecture.
(http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae241/cata1d0/ME/GermanHighBaroque.jpg)
I'd love to have sex there!
Can you imagine the acoustics ;)
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I'd love to have sex there!
Can you imagine the acoustics ;)
We will now refrain from any comments about organs in cathedrals...
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We will now refrain from any comments about organs in cathedrals...
[J.S.] "Bach had 20 children because his organ didn't have any stops." -- Leo Kottke
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Re: German High Baroque. They used to show us that crap in Architectural History class in the mid 60s as an example of what not to do. It's stuck with me ever since. Kitsch is a German word, yah?
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Indeed it is. And Ritters are best described as baroque. The one thing you can say about baroque as an art form and style is that it truly represented its preposterous time. And the one positive thing: It was overdecorated but did not try to dwarf the viewer like many Greek, Roman and Gothic architecture did. It was decadent, but less totalitarian. It attempted to look cute and entertain the eye, maybe blind with bling, but not tower over you.
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I just saw one of those beasts in real life in the German Tank Museum in Munster.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/IMG-20120826-00311.jpg)
It guzzled 1,000 liters of gasoline (no diesel tanks with the German Reich as gasoline could be extracted from coal, but oil couldn't)
Diesel fuel was available to the Germans but they chose to divert almost all, if not all, of it to the Navy for use in the U-boats.
I wanted to go to that museum when I was in Germany earlier this year but it's closed from November until March or so. I wanted to see that Tiger!