anon

Just completed the purchase of two double bass strings from MungoBass. A very easy and helpful chap to deal with.

P.M’d

I join your conversation from the distant past, a time when Selmer Goliath 1x18 cabinets, Hammond organs and Leslie speakers ruled the Earth. The glorious sound of a Sound City/Selmer/Sola Sound amplifier distorting and farting as the valves colourfully fried, still keeps me awake at night. Dislocated shoulders and Hammond Organs balanced on knees on staircases were the order of the day. My Epiphone Rivoli was not necessarily heard when played through the aforementioned Sound City/Selmer/Sola Sound amplifier coupled with the incomparable Selmer Goliath, but interacted very well with the audience’s digestive systems. These days I play a double bass without amplification and my shoulder hasn’t dislocated for approximately 45 years. However, in the meantime, the above prehistoric equipment doesn’t seem to have suffered in terms of financial value and what I found barely affordable all those years ago is now completely unaffordable these days, because it seems to have achieved retro historic status. If I could afford to recreate my equipment from those distant days, I would do so in an instant. But I would also need to rent storage space and a muscular young man or two to shlepp it all for me. The muscular man or men would obviously have to have, his or their own, historically appropriate van.

Fantastic, thank you.

It’s a long time ago now, early 1990’s I think when I was using them, but I seem to remember that it needed a tight fit to get the most out of it and the shrink wrap around the transducer element was quite fragile, which didn’t help. Similarly the cable into the element was very thin and prone to break. I don’t know maybe the lightness of the whole thing helped it sound so good. I plugged it straight into various Polytone amps and it always sounded fantastic. It’s wonderful that unused examples are still out there, good luck with it, or them seeing you have two!