Author Topic: Who get's your Alembic, after you die? (Read 342 times)

eligilam · « **Reply #30 on:** January 18, 2008, 07:11:14 AM »

I'm shipping my SC Deluxe to the estate of L.Ron Hubbard.

lbpesq · « **Reply #31 on:** January 18, 2008, 07:16:46 AM »

I don't plan to die.

Bill, tgo

danny_bryant · « **Reply #32 on:** January 18, 2008, 08:31:39 AM »

Well, I guess my youngest son will get my custom orion and my stepson will get my hot rod jazz bass with the Barts and Audere preamp. Im not trying to slight him but the youngest child in my house cares more for music than the other ones.

Bradley Young · « **Reply #33 on:** January 18, 2008, 10:37:45 AM »

Will,

Does Tom Cruise play bass?

eligilam · « **Reply #34 on:** January 18, 2008, 12:38:47 PM »

He will once he sees what kind of awesome emotiometer reading that SC Deluxe gives off.

Bradley Young · « **Reply #35 on:** January 18, 2008, 02:56:18 PM »

Dude,

I'd jump up and down on a couch if you gave it to me. Makes me feel all tingly just thinking about it.

u14steelgtr · « **Reply #36 on:** January 18, 2008, 04:00:02 PM »

Wills; are typically kept private until after we die.

Having said this: my most beloved instruments will go go to specific people and the rest of them including my Alembic will go to whomever in the family is willing to take them.

-E

george_wright · « **Reply #37 on:** January 19, 2008, 07:32:34 AM »

My wife is a nurse, not a musician. She can't understand my fascination with (and tendency to accumulate) musical toys. She once said that, should I predecease, all that junk would be on the curb the following Thursday for the trash man.

So, last time we updated our wills, we added a special paragraph saying that, when I die, all my musical gear goes to our number-three son, the starving musician of the family. The rationale is that he'll know best what to do with it all.

keavin · « **Reply #38 on:** January 19, 2008, 08:04:24 AM »

interesting story, a couple years ago my nieghbor (little old lady)passed away so when her only child (daughter)was cleaning the house a couple weeks later she rented a dumpster get to rid of belongings the only things she (the daughter)saved were family pics, EVERYTHING else went to the dumptser,a day later my other neighbor was dumpster diving / sifting thru it.... only to recover a jewelry box containing over $50,000 in antique diamondrings / chains & gold silver pearl jewelry among silverware & fine china ware & tons of rare expensive goodies..... i was floored at these items this woman tossed!!!

thehifidoc · « **Reply #39 on:** January 19, 2008, 10:03:07 AM »

My eldest gets the Series 1 and my second son gets the Epic 6 if I still own it, and my youngest gets the Skylark if he can play at least 5 real songs.

hendixclarke · « **Reply #40 on:** January 19, 2008, 11:39:24 AM »

I had to say something here...

I was 18 years old when I purchased my first Alembic bass.

Looking back to now...

If any kid (I know) wants to own an Alembic bad enough, they got to be good enough...

Kids need to go through what it takes to get value, and anything of value is worth earning for themselves.

Giving something away of value, is a form of cheating someone else's motivations to achieve. This is what create weaker children (in my mind).

It's just like me giving my house to my children. Sure, I would had loved if someone gave me my home, but at the price of my own story around home ownership? I thank GOD, I got it myself!!!!!

If you want something great, do what it takes to earn it and enjoy the memories and stories it took to get it. Giving something of value, robs the beneficiaries of their ownershiphood and legacy.

hifiguy · « **Reply #41 on:** January 20, 2008, 02:40:09 PM »

When I shuffle off this mortal coil any Alembics I own at that time (I have one and desire more) will be shipped back to Santa Rosa. Sophie and any of her future colleagues will go home, where they belong. Should Alembic wish to resell it, I know it will be in the hands of someone who will appreciate its specialness.

As I've said before, an Alembic is an heirloom, like a Hamburg Steinway or a Strad, Amati or Guarnerius. I'm entrusted with caring for it, but it belongs to the ages.

811952 · « **Reply #42 on:** January 21, 2008, 07:26:58 AM »

This morning I'm thinking that there is a good chance that if someone actually knows what an Alembic is, then there's a good chance they would be worthy of the instrument, even if their skills aren't there yet. I know my skills still aren't there yet, and I had mine built in 1981. Someone who knows what they are will seek them out. Others will avoid them like the plague. I guess maybe a litmus test might be to let them play with the very-non-standard tone circuitry for a little while, and see if they can get their brain around it or not..

Good morning everybody...

John

somatic · « **Reply #43 on:** February 16, 2008, 12:07:28 AM »

I have no children. My brother is the executor of my will and I send him a list of the approx value of my stuff, and detail of what it all is so that he can sell it for it's true value and give it to my nephews to do with as he/they please.

rockbassist · « **Reply #44 on:** February 29, 2008, 02:02:36 PM »

My Son, unless I decide to take it with me. I hear there is a hell of a band up there. Hendrix, Entwistle, Moon, Elvis, Lennon, Harrison, etc

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