Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => For Sale & Trade => Topic started by: rv_bass on July 10, 2021, 03:17:50 PM
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Hi Everyone,
I have a few 70’s era Series basses and don’t play them all regularly, so I am putting 76-270 up for sale again. No flippers and no trades please, thanks.
Please email me if interested.
Thanks,
Rob
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Photo below…
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Nice one, and unique.
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come to poppa 😎
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On its way to a good home :)
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That's a sweet one.
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Congrats Robert!!
I had been a few seconds too late on that… :-)
Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)
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just picked it up from UPS. holy crap! not a scratch on it! what a knockout!
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Excellent, i hope you have a great relationship with it. :-)
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There is only one reason that #270 doesn't live here in Virginia... about two inches of horizontal reach I ain't got. ;D
Congratulations. That bass is very, very special.
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And why not in Germany?
Well, at least I had asked, but I was a bit late…😉
Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)
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well that makes 2 immaculate refins in a row that have landed in the house of BeenDown in the last week. didn't plan it that way, it just sorta happened. i guess i should thank that guy who beat me to the punch on that spyder, pretty sure that bass would've crippled me anyway.
<edit> also kudos to mr. rvbass, a true gentleman and a scholar. it took a big leap of faith to send $$$ to a complete stranger for a bass sight unseen and he was the epitome of patience and accomodation.
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Thank you, sir beendown and a pleasure interacting with you as well. Hope you enjoy, it’s a great bass! :)
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yes we're a big happy family that spans the decades: '76 series I, '83 exploiter, '95 essence fretless, '18 MK deluxe. don't have the early '00s represented, maybe it's better that way. this makes alembic #12 that i've owned over the years, hopefully this is is the last one (never say never, i say). either that or i'm gonna hafta get a bigger place and/or get rid of some furniture.
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I don't think anyone here will try to discourage you from getting more space for more Alembics.
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I don't think anyone here will try to discourage you from getting more space for more Alembics.
There’s Always room for more! :o
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There’s Always room for more!
aren't you teh guy who said anything worth doing is worth overdoing?
good heavens, sir! whooOO000OOoo!
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The Spyders, Classico, Steinbergers & Chapman Sticks aren’t in the picture. Yup, Livin’ The Dream!
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Congratulations. That bass is very, very special.
indeed it is, we've been spending a few days getting acquainted with each other. it's still got the flatwound strings it came with on it, i'd been planning on setting it up with rotosound rounds like my other fretted basses, but it's been so long since i've played flatwounds on a fretted bass that i decided to try to keep an open mind and leave them on while the bass acclimates and i try to find my voice on this instrument.
bottom line is - we're gonna roll with flats on this one for a while, got a new set of rotosound flats on the way for it, gonna see how it goes. i've got two other very bright sounding fretted basses, maybe a little variety is in order. i definitely get that old school 70's tone/vibe outta this one (maybe i'll even use a pick with it *gasp*) and there's some music that i play where it fits perfectly.
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Though it should not come as a surprise, I think Series basses sound incredible with pick and flat wounds (TIs for me). When I've had rounds on them they have just sound too bright for my tastes.
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If I know Rob, those are Pyramid Gold Flats... a classic Alembic sound; Series I bass strung with Pyramids. Hard to mess one up, but that's a great combination. The next nice thing is, changing to an alternate set is a 5-minute job on an Alembic. I do this with my old Distillate from time to time... I keep a set of TI Jazz Rounds in the case ready to go on there, but ordinarily she wears flats. Had Pyramids on there too, for a while.
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:)