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Alembic products => Owning an Alembic => Serial Number / History Requests => Topic started by: redtiger on May 20, 2009, 09:17:36 AM

Title: (x) 77-829 Series I
Post by: redtiger on May 20, 2009, 09:17:36 AM

Mica,
 
Found out used, looks beautiful and still looking at it.
Request to know build history, especially body and neck woods.
Thanks.
 
Redtiger

Title: (x) 77-829 Series I
Post by: adriaan on May 20, 2009, 09:46:33 AM

Already requested , last year - unfortunately no reply.

Title: (x) 77-829 Series I
Post by: gtrguy on May 21, 2009, 09:53:51 AM

77-829 is not for sale, and has not been for sale.
 
Bye,
Dave

Title: (x) 77-829 Series I
Post by: mica on July 01, 2009, 05:20:07 PM

In case anyone still is curious about this bass, here's what the file says:
 
77-829 LSB Fretless
 
top and back: Walnut
core: Maple Walnut Purpleheart
neck: Maple, Walnut, Beech, Purpleheart
scale: 34 long
fingerboard: Ebony, unlined fretless
peghead veneers: Walnut
birthday: September 20, 1977
originally made for: Lee Dorman?
 
That's all I've got on the file card, right down to the question mark about Lee Dorman of Iron Butterfly. He was on our user list in the mid seventies, but I don't know if it was for this bass or not. There are pictures in the Showcase (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8367).

Title: (x) 77-829 Series I
Post by: gtrguy on July 02, 2009, 12:35:30 PM

Yes, the guy I bought it from said it was custom made for Lee Dorman but that he passed away before he could pick it up. The person I bought it from then bought it new and has had it all these years until sold to me!
 
How cool is that? There are also pictures on the Alembic history page of this bass.
 
Bye,
Dave

Title: (x) 77-829 Series I
Post by: olieoliver on July 02, 2009, 12:42:30 PM

I thought Lee Dorman was still alive?  
 
OO

Title: (x) 77-829 Series I
Post by: gtrguy on July 02, 2009, 12:46:45 PM

You are right! I just did some research. The plot is still thick!
 
Dave

Title: (x) 77-829 Series I
Post by: olieoliver on July 02, 2009, 12:52:00 PM

I bet Lee will be glad to hear that.  
 
OO

Title: (x) 77-829 Series I
Post by: gtrguy on July 02, 2009, 01:06:38 PM

I'd love to email him to ask about the bass. Anybody know him?
 
Bye,
Dave

Title: (x) 77-829 Series I
Post by: olieoliver on July 02, 2009, 01:13:09 PM

Might try here. (http://www.ironbutterfly.com/contact.php)

Title: (x) 77-829 Series I
Post by: dadabass2001 on July 03, 2009, 10:22:52 AM

Thanks for the link, Ollie.
I just ordered Metamorphosis from their store. I remember hearing Butterfly Bleu on KAAY, Little Rock (Bleeker Street) in the late 60s and early 70s. I used to own it on vinyl, but it disappeared in the dim late 70s.
yipee - post #1200
Mike