Author Topic: My new precious - Tiran Porter's 73 Alembic (Read 1170 times)

count · « **on:** October 12, 2011, 02:02:15 PM »

Just purchased my long-time dreambass. Uploading some pictures they sent me from the shop now, and after Tiran has signed it (yes, I'm actually buying it FROM him) I will upload some pics of that as well. I'm gonna have him sign the back of the headstock, and give it a nice very light clearcoat to protect it. BTW, what paint was used on these old Alembics? So I don't mess the whole thing up with chemical mayhem caused by incompatible paint. Comments are welcomed! And even though Tiran is going to plot down the bass whole history as far as he remembers it I also appreciate any info you guys can give me.

[edited for picture alignment] (Message edited by adriaan on October 12, 2011)

adriaan · « **Reply #1 on:** October 12, 2011, 02:17:59 PM »

Way to go, Nicolai! That is truly a piece of history, and some serious mojo happening there.

Now the 64,000 dollar question - where's the other strap pin?

sonicus · « **Reply #2 on:** October 12, 2011, 02:26:15 PM »

Beautiful Bass . I remember these from the early days. I could speculate that the finish might be perhaps an oil finish but I could be wrong. I would wait to hear a proprietary response from Mica about compatibility regarding synthetic clear coat finish . Perhaps a signature on the brass plate would be possible. Congratulations.

count · « **Reply #3 on:** October 12, 2011, 03:18:05 PM »

I'm curious to find that out myself!
From what I've found on youtube it used to be on the horn. Will report on this as it arrives though. It's on it's way over the atlantic. Traveling first class of course.. In an anvil flight case, hehe..
Here's a youtube clip of Tiran playing it live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG3qPn8xLrE

David Houck · « **Reply #4 on:** October 14, 2011, 06:33:28 PM »

Congrats!!! Wonderful bass!

bassfingers · « **Reply #5 on:** October 14, 2011, 08:55:16 PM »

Mazeltov!!.

count · « **Reply #6 on:** October 15, 2011, 12:25:32 PM »

Signed headstock:

artswork99 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 15, 2011, 12:36:49 PM »

Nicolai, What a beautiful bass! Play it Healthy! Art

ps: I took care of the duplicate thread for you.

count · « **Reply #8 on:** October 15, 2011, 01:10:27 PM »

Thanks Art.
And I assure you it's going to an active and secure home.

dela217 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 16, 2011, 09:31:24 AM »

If I were to guess the range of the serial number on this instrument I would think it would be in the range of 73-44 through 73-48.

Or it may not have a number at all!

room037 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 16, 2011, 11:13:11 AM »

Hi Michael,

I'm also thinking about serial No.
My guess is 73-44 to 46.
I wrote on Serial Number / History Requests
73-47 is SSB, 74-48 is SSG.

Eiji

count · « **Reply #11 on:** October 16, 2011, 11:22:34 AM »

Answered your post in the other thread Eiji. Thanks! Curious about this archive of yours..

By SSB/SSG you mean small standard right?

room037 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 16, 2011, 04:23:22 PM »

SSB is Short Scale Bass, SSG is Short Scale Guitar.

I pointed out about Alembic logo.
Oldest logos are unknown, I only know 72-01 has no logo ?, 72-02 has shell inlaied cloud.
Older inlay logo as folating A : A is floating in the circle. (72-10 to 73-43 on my archives)
Newer inlay logo as gripped A : a hand grips A with circle. (73-47 to 74-52)
Then the gripped A logo was mounted on a head veneer. (74-53 to 77-720 or 744 ?)
Current logo is detailed cast silver inlay (77-755 to now)

This bass has gripped A inlay logo.
So only 3 basses (73-44, 45, 46) are match in this case.

Eiji

tmoney61092 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 16, 2011, 04:35:54 PM »

Looks like this baby has mellow filters(if those are in fact 2 extra switches) very nice bass though!

~Taylor

pace · « **Reply #14 on:** October 16, 2011, 05:01:23 PM »

Congrats, Count!!!

This bass has some serious mojo, and it's good to know that it's going to a good home.

Taylor, the mellow filters didn't come about until a couple of years after this bass was built. This bass has the PF-5 preamp card, whereas the trim pots are mounted on the front of the bass. The PF-6 card is mounted on the rear brass plate, and had four holes to access the trim pots and HX inductors.