Burns-bass

Bump for a price drop to £2050.

Might consider trades for a fancy bass, but need cash my way to pay for taps, a basin and my wife’s choice of tiles.

Thanks for the kind words. It’s a lovely bass. Happy to take offers.

I've seen these basses before. I think it's actually a Soviet-era Ural bass guitar. If you check out their range, there are guitars with the same body shape, I reckon they just also created a bass version.

They also did some amazing other instruments.

Thanks Gareth, that's one I haven't seen. I'm working on another book at the moment, so this is taking a back seat until January next year. I've tracked down one of the Elgar books, two more to go!

Here is my 1974 / 75 Fender Jazz. It's right on the cusp of the transition, with 74' dated pickups and pots, and a 4 bolt neck plate.

The bass was taken in a partial trade for my 63' Precision, but I'm moving it on because I need to pay for some work to the house, and I have too many guitars, uprights and basses (apparently).

It plays amazingly well, and since owning it I've cleaned the fretboard up and given it a full set up. This really is a great, gigging 70s Jazz and isn't prohibitively heavy, nor too beat up.

I've listed the good, and not so good bits below... I have a huge amount more pictures to should you want to see them.

I don't want to ship this abroad, and am reticent to send it in the UK if I'm honest. I will only do so if the buyer pays for fully insured shipping (and someone tells me where I get this from!).

Details:[list]
[*]Finish, neck bridge, pickups (although recently rewound), pots, neck, tuners, scrathcplate, bridge and pickup covers and case.
[*]Plays really well, very bright (rewound pickups) and has been set up well.
[*]No dead spots in the neck.
[*]Finish wear isn't too bad, it's 'honest' I guess, commensurate with use, but doesn't suggest this bass has been abused.
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Things to note:[list]
[*]The pickups have been rewound, are strong and fantastically loud
[*]There is a small section of the pick guard missing. (This originally really upset me, so I bought a reissue 75' pick guard, but never fitted it. In the end, you get used to it)
[*]The bass has had a refret. The frets are the chunky vintage type, but there are marks on the binding.
[*]There is one spring on the bridge that has been replaced
[*]One of the bridge screws is slightly damaged (although it still functions)
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Price is now £2050

Trade wise, I don't want anything really, but am always interested in vintage fenders. Stuff I want at the moment is a Telecaster Bass and a 70s Precision.

Otherwise, cash is preferred.

Based in Bristol but can travel should you want to meet up.

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He said he made a mistake with the price and is going to list them higher, I and the others will get them at the original price.
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That's bloody good of him. Nuff respect to that man.

These are stunning basses

The arm weight things is true, but learning DB (if you’ve come from an electric bass background) is a challenge. It is all about arm weight but your strain is going to be about building up some strength and stamina to be in what’s likely to be a new position and unlearning, to a degree. The habits and memories of playing electric bass.

You need to spend time playing, it’s that simple. And I do too...

Replied to your very generous offer.

I always used to use the Josquin de Pres sight reading for bass book. It’s a really great way to learn rhythm and sub-division.

It takes dedications (a few 5 minute practices every day) but progress is very quick.

Worth a try at least.

To be fair, the chap does say no breaks to the body...

I always hate it when a bass sounds more like a bag of aluminium cans being kicked down a hallway.

Hi all, I've been given a set of love Evah Pirazzi upright bass strings, but there's no G string. I'm not even going to smile at that because I'm the grown up and it's the truth.

Does anyone have a spare, used G (doesn't need to match) ?

Any help gratefully received and I'll either swap something from my parts/music book draw or stump up some cold hard
cash.

Alternatively, if anyone has an old set of Spirocores, that's what I use on my upright, so could buy them...

Cheers!

Where are you based?

Poor guy. Hope he finally gets his bass at some point!

Cheers!

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(Also the brand is Squier...)
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Everyone is a critic!

Can't seem to upload them for some reason - PM if you want them!

Will send this for £55 as I want to get rid of it.

I've got a Chinese Bullet Squire for sale.

It's in good condition, sunburst. The tremolo unit has been screwed down to sort intonation.

There are two small holes in the back of the neck near the bottom of the , I've never discovered why. Doesn't affect playing.

I'll send this to you for £60 (neck removed).

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I've been buying and selling here for 15 years and 99% of the time folks are 100% reliable, but I would not do a trade deal overseas, far easier for one of you to sell their respective instrument and buy the other's
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Agree 100%.

In fact, the last deals I've done have all been in person. It's brilliant meeting Basschatters in person.

My brother used to work with roni Size bassist Si John at a film company that turned out to be a VAT fraud operation with a sideline in corporate tax avoidance.

Hi all, i've got the stuff from Carol Kaye. Rather than post an open link, if you want me to share it with you, then pop me a PM. All free etc.

Fantastic. I've got the Brun book and I agree it's fantastic. Its actually quite rare. I've not managed to track down the Elgar book yet, but I'm sure I will.

Thanks for the kind words. The book is in development, so no structure yet just research. Will update in the new year when it's taken more shape.

Keep the recommendations coming people!

When I used to claim mileage allowance for cycling this classed me (in my mind at least) as a professsional cyclist.

I've played and recorded with professionals, was semi-pro for a while and it's all the same.

It's the same as a sense of humour, if you have to demand a pro attitude it's likely you don't have it.

Suggests on his Wikipedia page (100% reliable of course) that his tone was created by plucking then palm-muting. I find that hard to believe given the attack. I reckon it's a stick of foam under the bridge like Herbie Flowers and the UK session guys.

It's a great sound though. Same sort of thing runs through the 60s funky Italian soundtracks. Also a lot of early Lalo Schifrin / west coast jazz has the same tone. Carol Kaye who played on a pot of this stuff definitely had a foam mute.