Thomas Martin Bass in Canada

[Staggering on]

Not many of these over here but you can see another photo and a story in my post in General Discussion "How was your gig last night". It is a 3/4 bass with a 42 inch string length and although it is not a very big bass it has a massive sound and came with a C extension and is lovely to play and sounds fantastic, too bad it's not mine.😊

 

 

 

 

 

[MacDaddy]

Love a C extension (3 of my basses have D extensions). 

Despite them being required by many orchestras (try playing Mahler 3 without one!) that's the first one I've seen in the wild 😎

[NickA]

Mahler and Elgar (amongst others) didn't seem to know the normal range of a double bass 😂.   I doubt extensions existed back then either. 

 

I've had to retune to DADG or CGDG on occasion ..a friend has a BEADG 5 string which is the best way to go.  Extensions are awkward and ugly imo.

 

No fan of Mahler anyway.

 

But T&G Martin make some lovely basses ..if yr loaded enough.

[bassace]

But a note of caution. I had a top of the range Martin. It had thunderous lows to the extent that I kept getting told from audience members that I was very very loud. But I wasn’t getting that on stage. If I turned the gain down I couldn’t hear much. I even switched the amp off in a seven piece and was ‘too loud’. So I sold it.

 

I have no doubt they make excellent orchestral instruments.

[NickA]

1 hour ago, bassace said:

excellent orchestral instruments

True, a local player who subs for my orchestra has a 5 string one.  Huge fat round bottom end 🙂 phwoar. A sound I really like. A lot of fine "classical" oriented basses sound to me like big cellos, which doesn't float my boat.  However the T&G may not work so well for jazz. I'd ask for a try, but pretty sure it has those "bowing only" strings on.

Edited 12 hours ago by NickA

[Owen]

2 hours ago, bassace said:

 It had thunderous lows

Sign me up. More is more.