the tailpiece isn't a standard bar. if you look at the second picture you can see that the strings pass through it into the body and have no place to hook into in the back of the tailpiece.
the wood colour match for the back of the headstock is very poor for an Alembic. as well it looks to be a either a non-scarfed neck with no volute or a scarf joint with no back laminates. that's not just strange, Mica's reply in
this article implies it's something they just would not do.
it's a little suspicious, but that doesn't mean much. the page doesn't mention the serial # anywhere, does it?
(Message edited by bigideas on August 21, 2006)