Who are Antbass?

[tauzero]

Browsing around the Bass Gallery website, I happened across an Antbass Pharoah: https://thebassgallery.com/collections/bass/products/antbass

 

 

Headless neck-through bass - just the thing to pique my interest. But only four strings. So I set off on a quest to find out about Antbass, which came to a very rapid conclusion when there was absolutely no sign of them on the internet except for this very bass. Does anyone happen to know who, what, when, and possibly why? Judging by the photos, it has a distinctly used (but looked after) air to it, and the brass cover which I assume conceals the truss rod access looks a few years old.

 

[Grooverjr]

No idea wh they are but that is a very cool shape. Love a bit of brass on a bass as well. I wonder how The Gallery came up with that price - seems pretty premium for what is most likely a curiosity.

[Hellzero]

Did you ask Adam?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll get my coat.

[Hellzero]

Looks like it was the model name of Uwe Schmidt, not the brand:

 

http://guitardesignreviews.com/2011/08/soundboard-interview-with-guitar-designer-uwe-schmidt/

[Hellzero]

He's also the guy behind this pretty delirious, but excellent project:

 

[Bassassin]

Aside from the fact several are headless, I don't see any design similarities between Herr Schmidt's quirky & rather home-made aesthetic & the design & construction of the Bass Gallery Antbass. I doubt they're related.

[Hellzero]

47 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

He's also the guy behind this pretty delirious, but excellent project:

 

Just listening to it right now, Kraftwerk meeting latin music, still excellent after all these years.

 

Sometimes rediscovering his own discotheque is great.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

1 hour ago, Grooverjr said:

I wonder how The Gallery came up with that price - seems pretty premium for what is most likely a curiosity.

In my experience, for commission sales they ask how much you want your bass to be listed for when you bring it in, so that price possibly came from the owner.

[RonC]

1 hour ago, Hellzero said:

Did you ask Adam?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll get my coat.

haha, that was my 1st thought too!!😁

[fiatcoupe432]

I remember have seen another one for sale some years ago...... 

[tauzero]

Thelema Instruments website at thelema-instruments.de no longer exists. However, it's on the Wayback Machine and the Antbass is a different kettle of fish.

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20131207080247/http://thelema-instruments.de/antbass.html

 

 

So the original question still stands.

[bakerster135]

Those unevenly spaced tuners on the bridge are driving me mad...

[three]

19 hours ago, bakerster135 said:

Those unevenly spaced tuners on the bridge are driving me mad...

I hadn't noticed.  Thanks for that...

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