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Title: Have alembic made or ever been asked to make something on this scale?
Post by: jazzyvee on April 14, 2022, 11:51:33 PM

Just saw this bass on FB today and wondered a bass of this magnitude has ever emerged from the alembic workshop?
If not what is the largest number of strings on a bass that alembic has made, excluding the bases with octave strings like the spyders etc.
The most stringed alembic i am aware of is this one, the 8 string bass that Trip Wamsley used to own.
http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_trip.html (http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_trip.html)
(http://www3.alembic.com/img/trip_frontview.jpg)

Title: Re: Have alembic made or ever been asked to make something on this scale?
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on April 15, 2022, 09:10:36 AM

There is also Mark Shepard's 8: http://www.alembic.com/info/8string.html (http://www.alembic.com/info/8string.html)  & https://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8626.0 (https://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8626.0)

Something in the back of my brain is saying I've seen pix of one with more, but things are kind of dark & dusty back there, so don't quote me on that.

Peter

Title: Re: Have alembic made or ever been asked to make something on this scale?
Post by: jazzyvee on April 15, 2022, 11:31:59 AM

Hi Peter, yes I remember that one Europa but don't recall seeing one with more strings.

Title: Re: Have alembic made or ever been asked to make something on this scale?
Post by: FC Bass on April 15, 2022, 01:38:02 PM

Shopnight bass, though it was made for a friend of one of the employees. (so kind of illigal,  shopnight?)

11 strings! : https://www.talkbass.com/threads/behold-the-hideous-claw.212098/

(https://www.talkbass.com/attachments/claw1-jpg.2648327)

Title: Re: Have alembic made or ever been asked to make something on this scale?
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on April 15, 2022, 08:14:54 PM

Apparently it's an ongoing theme with the owner: 


Peter

Title: Re: Have alembic made or ever been asked to make something on this scale?
Post by: jazzyvee on April 16, 2022, 12:18:01 AM

Oh........

Title: Re: Have alembic made or ever been asked to make something on this scale?
Post by: dannobasso on April 16, 2022, 04:52:12 PM

If anyone is interested, I have a 9'er going cheapish.

Title: Re: Have alembic made or ever been asked to make something on this scale?
Post by: mica on April 17, 2022, 08:56:19 PM

I think the 9-string hybrid guitar/bass made for Carol Kaye probably has the most non-double-coursed-strings of any official Alembic instrument.

Title: Re: Have alembic made or ever been asked to make something on this scale?
Post by: jazzyvee on April 18, 2022, 02:08:37 AM

Thanks for that Mica. Do you know of any photos of that instrument?