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Excellent!! Thank you very much, I'll pass that one on to his mum. He is going to be so thrilled and surprised that I managed to keep it a secret! Will deffinatly be telling him that you all helped me out bass players are the best!

Yes! It was the one on gumtree. It was actually an antoni! And was an elderly lady selling it as it was her late husbands and no longer has use for it. She have me the original reciept for it too, and the shop advised her to sell it for £550 but she wanted a quick sale so I snapped it up!
I managed to get a few lines of 'another one bites the dust' out of it and it sounded great!

Finger crossed he likes it! Thank you all so much for your advice, my boyfriend uses this forum a lot and has told me it's great! Thank you again!!

Thank you all so much for the advice.

I'm going to go and have a look at it tonight. Has anyone got any tips on what I'm looking for if it's the real deal, or an unplayable cheap knockoff?

Thank you again!!

Hi there,

I'm looking to buy a double bass for my boyfriend for his birthday and quite frankly I'm clueless. I've found one selling local to me for £250 it's a full sized antonelli double bass.

My boyfriend is a very experienced electric bass player but has never played a double bass yet. Would this bass be suitable for him to practice on and maybe gig in the future?

It seems too cheap to me, hence why I am slightly suspicious.

Thank you to anyone who can help