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Alembic products => Showcase => Series I Basses and Guitars => Topic started by: gerarddem on December 06, 2009, 02:59:55 PM

Title: My Double-Neck (4-string bass/6-string guitar) Serial #80 1662
Post by: gerarddem on December 06, 2009, 02:59:55 PM

It may be the only Alembic double-neck 4-stringbass/6-string guitar in existence! In any case, Alembic did an outstanding job... including inlaying my initials, "G de M" in the headstock of the bass!  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/73716.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/73717.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/73718.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/73719.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/73720.jpg)

Title: My Double-Neck (4-string bass/6-string guitar) Serial #80 1662
Post by: elwoodblue on December 06, 2009, 03:18:10 PM

Thanks for the great pics...nice touch having the humcancelling pickup hidden.
 
I see what you mean with the case, it looks like a small bed!
peace,
Kris

Title: My Double-Neck (4-string bass/6-string guitar) Serial #80 1662
Post by: gerarddem on December 06, 2009, 03:43:18 PM

I had to get an extra hotel room for when I traveled with it!  9-)
 
I only played it for two gigs in New York and then put it away. It has been sitting in that red coffin for the last 29 years... unplayed ...untouched ...unloved!

Title: My Double-Neck (4-string bass/6-string guitar) Serial #80 1662
Post by: elwoodblue on December 06, 2009, 03:47:19 PM

I have an 80's Aria pro doubleneck (guitar/bass)
that needs more lovin' too...I'll have to pull her from the depths of the closet.
thanks for the inspiration : )

Title: My Double-Neck (4-string bass/6-string guitar) Serial #80 1662
Post by: tmoney61092 on December 06, 2009, 03:48:49 PM

i can see where it would be a pain to lug around and even play, but i would definitly play her sitting down
 
~Taylor Watterson

Title: My Double-Neck (4-string bass/6-string guitar) Serial #80 1662
Post by: gerarddem on December 06, 2009, 04:01:41 PM

When I played it sitting down... I looked like Kilroy... just my eyes peeking over the top and my arms protruding around it... 9-)
 
But what an instrument to play!

Title: My Double-Neck (4-string bass/6-string guitar) Serial #80 1662
Post by: sonicus on December 06, 2009, 04:14:35 PM

Cool !

Title: My Double-Neck (4-string bass/6-string guitar) Serial #80 1662
Post by: artswork99 on December 06, 2009, 06:24:40 PM

Very, very nice!  Welcome to the forum Gerard.

Title: My Double-Neck (4-string bass/6-string guitar) Serial #80 1662
Post by: gerarddem on December 06, 2009, 06:42:20 PM

Thank you Art! ...and you too Wolf!
 
I really wish I had a better idea of how much my 1980 bubinga Series I guitar would fetch (I have it listed in the for sale area under Series I)... I want to sell it ASAP...
 
Kris (Elwood) was nice enough to give me his idea... he said ballpark $2,500-$3,000+ but he also said it may fetch more.
 
I already have one person interested and asking me what I want for it...
 
 trying to do the right thing for my wife and 4 sons... don't want to wait too long and don't want to give it away either...
 
(don't want to part with it at all but... have to make some sacrifices for my new vocation)  9-)

Title: My Double-Neck (4-string bass/6-string guitar) Serial #80 1662
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on December 06, 2009, 07:26:28 PM

Wow - I don't think I've ever seen a bass-guitar doubleneck with the bass on top.  Very nice instrument (& the bubinga guitar is yummy, too).
 
Peter

Title: My Double-Neck (4-string bass/6-string guitar) Serial #80 1662
Post by: gerarddem on December 07, 2009, 07:03:42 AM

Thanks Coz...
 
I was the bass player for AMERICADE at the time... but the  band was morphing from more of a Chicago-type unit (complete with horns) to a 4-piece Van Halen-style rock band... and our original guitarist wasn't interested in going for the ride... so I had to learn how to play the guitar... basically on stage... lol!
 
Leviathon as this instrument was named, was the instrument I needed to play during the transition... I only played it for a few months, then, along with my Bubinga Dark Baby, they were both retired... never to see the light of day again for 29 years... until I took the photos of them yesterday...

Title: My Double-Neck (4-string bass/6-string guitar) Serial #80 1662
Post by: hieronymous on December 09, 2009, 04:48:03 PM

Meant to post before - sweet doubleneck! I am a fellow doubleneck owner (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8334), though mine is a fretless 4 string paired with a short-scale 6-string bass which is currently tuned baritone (between bass and guitar, starting on A). Space is definitely an issue - I moved into a smaller house, and the case definitely takes up a lot of real estate...
 
Glad to see yours resurrected!