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The (hard to find) EMG single string pickups fitted this way on my Leduc EUB 6 called Moaï are working really good even with the bow (that I play badly, of course) and are height adjustable to fine tune the tone and output. There are also 6 RMC piezos in the bridge with a dedicated RMC preamp and the EMG summing preamp and both can be blended at will thanks to the twin volume/tone configuration. That said the low B bowed can destroy a poorly made speaker, but it's working really well as the sensing area is bigger... Just add a bit of piezos for crispness and you get a really realistic tone thanks to the patented floating Leduc top of the U-Basse adapted here. It was a six (according to Christophe Leduc) to seven (according to me as I factor in the year of discussion and ideas trials) years built.

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I had one of these too, when they appeared over here in continental Europe, that I played on a gig on the same day I received it and also on further ones The funny thing is that I've been complemented by almost all the audience for my great tone with this very bass, but not with my other high end fretless, a Leduc MP 628 SF, which to my ears was and still sounds better, but the mwah on the HK was just insane... I guess that's what the audience loved. Sadly the HK was so heavy and very head diving that I sold it some time later, but I really loved that insane mwah. It's not pictured in my list as it was before I started to photograph each instrument getting in ... and out.

I quite like the rustic look of it and its history.

That's why I put the Amazon link...

Sounds good with a passive bass à la P-Bass, way too nasal for other basses and never try a fretless with it : all the cats will leave the neighbourhood. I had 3 or 4 over the years, including a brand new one when it was released, but always ended up selling them because of that nasal tone, and the weight too, especially nowadays.

Top notch resurrection, congratulations! I was a bit sceptical about the choice of the finish, but it looks very nice as it is, with that touch of class.

Still thinking about hitting the button, but have one last question: Is this price shipping included (to Belgium, for me and @BlueMoon ... if he's still interested)?

And don't forget the Kawai Aures 2 series where you get the same as the ATX-4 plus the option to hear your piano or whatever connected via Bluetooth to it through the very soundboard of the piano itself thanks to transducers exciting the said soundboard. The sound is quite impressive.

Unlined with the dots on the side at correct place (where the note would be).

Unlined with the dots on the side at correct place (where the note would be).

You know what, I'm really fed up by this forum where people post without reading and start getting aggressive when you simply make them noticing it.

The OP already owns a double bass @Stub Mandrel. 😉

Same question here: Any chance to see a fretless version coming soon?

Any chance to see a fretless version coming soon ?

How would you play the reversed fretless part ? Using a pedal?

Lovely tune, and superb fretless tone. ❤️

5 months ago, I was like you, but I managed to find a rare BassLab L-Bow V, that I, of course, bought. I would have preferred the fretless version, but it's even rarer. The two other fretted basses in the house belong to my wife and I absolutely don't play them. That said, if I put aside that dire Maya EB-2 "bass", which was my first bass, that I sold to get drunk after my studies, alongside a pristine Korg MS-20 (yep the real one that nobody wanted anymore back then). I then really started playing fretless and almost only fretless during the next 38 years, firstly, on a defretted Aria Diamond Violin bass, my second bass and first real one as the crappy Maya doesn't count to me, fitted with EMG "Steinberger" pickups and also a piezo under the bridge (painted in pearly yellow and modified by my friend Christophe Leduc). It really sounded amazing, but ended up as a deco (and then binned) after it was accidentally broken by a family member... That said, I had a pretty good load of fretted basses, but always ended up selling them very quickly, except a very few ones for some reasons. I'm like @Linus27 or certainly @Rosie C and @Beedster and feel at home on fretless basses.

It's a Takamine TB-10. 😉

There's one pictured after it's been fretted, I need to put the correct photo and name all of them...

I'm definitely a fretless player, wanna proof? Check this... And a lot are missing...

In fact, the Marcus Miller and the Geddy Lee were introduced in ... 1998, not before, but it's a common mistake to date them to 1985 because of the A serial number and the Made In Japan that was used only for these two models, as the other models of the period were bearing the Crafted In Japan inscription. Nice confusion leading to some serious mistakes.

You mean there was something going out of it, right? 🤔🤪😉

No need to change the strings, just clean them, have the bass checked by a luthier as he may need to relocate the sound post as well as the bridge correctly, but it's a minor adjustment. At this price tag, if it's playable as it is without rattling noises, you can't be wrong. Storing a classical instrument for that long is quite common.