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Title: Richbass939 family pics
Post by: richbass939 on December 06, 2004, 08:22:19 PM

I'll try to get the pics to work this time.  
 
Rich
 
(Message edited by richbass939 on December 07, 2004)

Title: Richbass939 family pics
Post by: richbass939 on December 06, 2004, 08:42:05 PM

Sorry, everyone.  I'll try it again.  
Rich  
   
 
 
(Message edited by richbass939 on December 08, 2004)

Title: Richbass939 family pics
Post by: richbass939 on December 06, 2004, 08:47:38 PM

Sorry, people.  I'm sure making a mess here.  Mica is working with me.  I'm sure the pics are on their way soon.  
Rich
 
(Message edited by richbass939 on December 07, 2004)

Title: Richbass939 family pics
Post by: mica on December 07, 2004, 01:23:54 PM

See if I have any better luck with these images:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/14911.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/14912.jpg)
 

Title: Richbass939 family pics
Post by: richbass939 on December 07, 2004, 02:11:18 PM

Thanks, Mica, for the help getting these pictures to post.  The top one is my Epic (95W9177) and my old Rickenbacker combo amp.  The bottom one shows most of our collection of instruments.  Soon I'll get a picture of the flesh 'n' blood family with some basses.
Rich

Title: Richbass939 family pics
Post by: bracheen on December 07, 2004, 03:35:25 PM

Wow! Great collection.  Did you say that your father in law made the violins? Did he make the cello and bass as well?
It's been a while since an Epic was posted here, very nice.

Title: Richbass939 family pics
Post by: richbass939 on December 07, 2004, 04:05:48 PM

My father-in-law made some of the violins.  He has made 53 violins and 1 viola since the late '40s.  The last one he made was for our younger son, started in 1997, the year he was born.  He also made one for our older son, started in 1994 (the year he was born), and one for my wife (the year she was born, which wasn't that long ago).  He'll be 92 in February so it's about time he hung it up.  
You can see the viola (barely) in front of the cello.  We have a Juzek violin from around 1910, an August Glass from the 1830s, an Italian violin from the 1770s, and a few others that he didn't make.  He wanted to make a cello for my wife when she was a teenager but discovered that the clamps he would need would cost more than a decent cello.  The only label in it says that it was repaired in Denver in the 1950s.  It has a great tone.  The bass is German, circa 1910.  It was a real find, a great deal.  But, man, are those things exhausting to play.  They absolutely kill your forearms and hands if you don't stay in shape.  I really respect those big band upright players.  
Rich    
 
 
 
(Message edited by richbass939 on December 08, 2004)

Title: Richbass939 family pics
Post by: locutusofborg10 on March 05, 2005, 06:17:08 PM

Rich;
That's some collection you have.  The Epic looks almost exactly like mine.  Please post again when you get the 5 string.
 
Peter

Title: Richbass939 family pics
Post by: 57basstra on September 27, 2006, 03:42:16 PM

Love the pics. Love the fiddles, I mean violins.