I've got a 1981 Aria SB-900. It feels and sounds lovely, and to the eye it's a thing of beauty ... walnut stained ash, rosewood fingerboard, maple and walnut neck-thru-body. Braw!
But (now that we have food and shelter sorted and we can afford to indulge in the pedantic) ...
What the heck were Aria thinking when they slapped the hardware together on these basses?!! It's a mess of pottage, a total stramash!!! ... Black knobs switches, and pickups, brass bridge and nut, chrome tuners, and aluminium strap buttons!
Others of you may like this particular feature of these basses. It's a bonnie bass, to be sure, but I'm thinking that a bit more attention to detail would have made it look [i]exeptional[/i]. Matching iron mongery and knobs ... and bigger tuners. The tuner-lugs look too small for the headstock ... only my humble opinion, of course.
Anyone else had thoughts about this?
I can't decide whether to modify of leave as standard. Hmmmmmmmm? O choin!
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