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SOLD: Lefay Singer 6-string
£2350
The Hague, Netherlands


TorVic
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Lefay site: https://www.lefay.de/index.php/EN/bass_models/singer

Tech. details: https://www.lefay.de/downloads/singer_e.pdf

Configuration:

  • Body: Sandwich construction. Top figured maple, back sapele mahogany
  • Neck: Glued-in hard maple, scale length: 86,4 cm (34 inches), carbon inside
  • Fingerboard: Rosewood, 22 or 24 frets, „Premium“ fret work
  • Finish: Acrylic closed-pore satin finish, stained in „Singer Gold“
  • Bridge: Le Fay
  • Pick-ups: 3 single-coils
  • Le Fay Cockpit: Vol (push/pull) +  5 position selector bass-mid-treble with centre detente  (note - the photo shown below indicates a 6-position switch but this bass has only 5) 

Lefay video (5 string version): 

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I like the idea of that, does it make the open strings sound more like fretted ones?
Checked some videos of Singers and man... Marvelous instruments! Still ... six strings I don't know...

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Zero frets are found on many bass models even with a normal nut. (Sandberg, Maruszczyk and many others use the 0 fret). 

Indeed the idea is that the open string  notes sounds more like the fretted note. 

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Is the string resting on the wood behind the fret?? Or if not, would a thicker guage, drop tuned etc?

Closer inspection, the “nut” is effectively carved in, nice but again different string gauges?

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I think a slightly thinner gauge might sit well behind the 0 fret but a thicker gauge would not if it doesn't fit in the slot carved in the wood.  

Having said that, I haven't changed strings myself to test this theory. 

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On 05/05/2020 at 00:00, DiMarco said:

I like the idea of that, does it make the open strings sound more like fretted ones?
Checked some videos of Singers and man... Marvelous instruments! Still ... six strings I don't know...

I'm a huge fan of the 0-fret concept. Having owned several Lefays and others basses with it.

PRO:
- lower, more natural string action in low positions
- open string provides same sound as fretted

CON:
- none

The 0-fret is typically a little bit thicker than the other frets.

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