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It would, but you create an angle by stacking layers of thin shims of different lengths, so they add height at the bridge but not where the neck exits the body.

@three is a BC superstar and that's a lovely bass! Enjoy...

Being sadly bandless, I have been scouring ads on Gumtree and JoinMyBand for a possible bass role. I am staggered by the obscure genres of music, the existence of which I had previously had no knowledge, for which people are advertising. Sludge/doom I get (Black Sabbath etc), shoegaze fine (MBV etc) but crabcore? Especially "unironic crabcore". Really?

Moonlight shadow - Mike Oldfield

Great advice. And many thanks for replying 👍

Thank you very much for replying and sharing your experiences - especially your comments regarding the low B. Its one of the main reasons the BTB appeals to me 👍

That is a thing of beauty. What a finish!

Collected today, gave them a brief test when I got home (at neighbour friendly volume) and everything seems to be working fine and dandy. Cosmetically they're in excellent, almost showroom condition, though the power amp has had a replacement output pot fitted a some point - one's smooth but the other's notched / graduated, like my Series 6 amp - not sure which is original.

As far as I am concerned Facebook is extremely dastardly - I refuse to have an account there or on any other service owned by the blackguard Zuckerberg. I block all known Meta URLs on my phone via DNS. Luckily for me my job doesn't need me to use it (it doesn't appear to be popular in academia), though some hobbies are affected by this stance.

That's great!

I had one of these many years ago; facing was indeed quilt maple veneer, I think mine was original spec with a passive circuit and a very weedy pickup (definitely the weak point). Good value for what they were, but I sold it on pretty quick.

Under A Raging Moon - Roger Daltrey

Where Dead Angels Lie - Dissection

Will take pics in the daytime tomoz. Need to get it open to see what preamp it has…

Love it. They look like Nordstrand BigBladeMan pickups. Those things rip - got a set in my Spector.

My band played one of our two annual freebie gigs at the Globe in Somerton. We do these in return for them letting us use their functions room whenever we need to rehearse. Last night we were in the main pub area and as usual it got pleasantly crowded. Although all 4 of us are gig-hardened, the band is relatively new and it was good to feel that our improvement trend continues. The steps are small now but still satisfying. This turned out to be one of those rare gigs where you leave with such a buzz that you don't care whether you get paid or not. Everyone was up dancing - including the staff in between serving - and the whole place was bouncing. The sound of live music was pulling passers-by in off the street and the place was so full early into the second set that some folks who couldn't get in ended up dancing on the pavement looking in through the window (see pic). This was my first chance to gig my recently-acquired short-scale Wilcock Mullarkey and it delivered everything I had hoped for. Up there with the best in terms of playability, it sits perfectly in our 4-piece mix running through my Ampeg SVT-7 Pro head and LFSys Monaco FR/FR cab, even managing to cut through the powerful lows that our guitarist's new Strat puts out. Another important bit of kit in delivering this 'heft with definition' is the Always On HPF I recently got from Broughton Audio in Canada. My amp delivers 600w into my 600w-rated cab and I got the HPF to protect the driver from potentially damaging low frequencies. Much to my surprise, I find that this tiny box of tricks does as much for my tone-shaping as my bass and amp controls. Shame they don't sell in Europe but luckily I was able to get mine via a contact living in Canada. Fitting in musically and socially with the band, making good equipment choices, learning new stuff, connecting with the punters, improving my own performance level ... there's so much to being a gigging bass-player. I found it intoxicating when I started playing 50 years ago and I still do.

You don’t show the back so I don’t know. @tauzero was being a little cryptic but if you show the side and back he could maybe compare

Yes. Anna notates the tuning at the start of the score for the 6th suite, all five strings. It’s an incredible suite, but I have to admit some of it is beyond my skill on any instrument. 😔

Ahhh. Cheers. Could it be one of those really thin veneers?

Actually, you are absolutely right - Suite Six was the one that needed the E-string and a 7/8th sized instument called the Violoncello Piccolo.