Have alembic made or ever been asked to make something on this scale?

[jazzyvee]

Just saw this bass on FB today and wondered a bass of this magnitude has ever emerged from the alembic workshop?
If not what is the largest number of strings on a bass that alembic has made, excluding the bases with octave strings like the spyders etc.
The most stringed alembic i am aware of is this one, the 8 string bass that Trip Wamsley used to own.
http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_trip.html

[cozmik_cowboy]

There is also Mark Shepard's 8: http://www.alembic.com/info/8string.html  & https://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8626.0

Something in the back of my brain is saying I've seen pix of one with more, but things are kind of dark & dusty back there, so don't quote me on that.

Peter

[jazzyvee]

Hi Peter, yes I remember that one Europa but don't recall seeing one with more strings.

[FC Bass]

Shopnight bass, though it was made for a friend of one of the employees. (so kind of illigal,  shopnight?)

11 strings! : https://www.talkbass.com/threads/behold-the-hideous-claw.212098/

[cozmik_cowboy]

Apparently it's an ongoing theme with the owner: 


Peter

[jazzyvee]

Oh........

[dannobasso]

If anyone is interested, I have a 9'er going cheapish.

[mica]

I think the 9-string hybrid guitar/bass made for Carol Kaye probably has the most non-double-coursed-strings of any official Alembic instrument.

[jazzyvee]

Thanks for that Mica. Do you know of any photos of that instrument?