Marleaux Soprano - Sold £950

[Grantd]

This beautiful Marleaux Sopran bass in fantastic condition. Created with Marleaux hand-crafted care, tuned an octave up from standard, has a beautiful piano-like quality to each note. Can be used with an octave pedal to achieve standard bass tones (though works best with a high quality unit).

Incredibly good fun, light and extremely easy to play, it's quite addictive really and so easy to carry around. 

The original gig bag (Warwick Rockbass with Marleaux branding) is included in the sale, as are the hex keys.

Carefully sourced wood: http://www.regio-tone-wood.com/ 

This bass is in Edinburgh but could be shipped.

Construction / Wood

• 3 piece maple neck - 4 string - separated with Wenge.
• 6 point bolt-on neck
• Matching headstock
• Maple fretboard with 24 frets, 57 cm (22.44") scale.
• 2 piece body with top (from wood of choice), and ergonomic shape 

Electronics

• Passive
• Single humbucker from Delano 

Hardware

• Black Schaller
• Strap locks

 Neck measurement

• Scale:      570 mm / 22.44"
• Nut:        40 mm / 1.57"
• 12. fret:  50 mm / 1.97"
• 24. fret:  55 mm / 2.17"
• Bridge:    54 mm (2.13")  / 18 mm (0.71") each string

 

 

Edited February 4, 2019 by Grantd

[CameronJ]

Bloody hell, you do have some nice instruments Grant!

[Grantd]

25 minutes ago, CameronJ said:

Bloody hell, you do have some nice instruments Grant!

Cheers, there are more to come, I just didn’t want to list them all at once. 

[Roadybus]

...maybe i should take this little beauty back to good‘ol germany...

[pluckedout]

I have one of these, absolutely amazing - incredibly playable.

[Frank Blank]

What strings do you use on it?

[Grantd]

I use the standard strings from Marleaux:

• Stainless steel
• Gauges:: 30 - 40 - 60 - 80

but I have heard of players using labella and DR Neon strings.

 

Edited January 28, 2019 by Grantd