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So, that is how it went to Heiko, and it came back last week, but I had to do my part of the job, as we agreed that I'll do all the reassembly. It's now fitted with a brand new BassLab/Richter 3 bands with variable mids preamp, the mandatory Richter status LED between the Delano SBC 5 HE/S pickups, some new ETS knobs, a new output barrel jack, a set of Dunlop Straploks instead of the usual Schaller ones, a new Gotoh battery box, the BassLab identification brand that was removed/missing on the bow, the official side "dots" with the F-clef at the octave on the front, a new "bracing" for the top, a new zero fret, some repairs in the carbon that were needed and the pickups support correctly glued as well as the ETS tuning system put the right way round with the correct screws (check the photos). It's now tuned E to C; the action is very low going from 1.2 to 1.5 mm at the octave with the perfect neck relief; the playability is, of course, amazing and the tone is really huge with a kind of permanent reverb, even dead flat or in passive mode, and becomes immense when you start using the 3 bands EQ with variable mids preamp. It's also hyper ergonomic and very light at 3.445 kilos. The colour is the official Maserati Yellow. It took around 5 months to Heiko to finalise the resurrection of this extraordinary instrument, but it was worth it as it's almost as new, even if it's a very early model without truss rod or serial number, so from 1998 or 1999. Enjoy, and especially @Dazed!

Too late, it's already sold. 😉

Did anybody notice that the two photos are showing him playing exactly the same thing exactly the same way ... or maybe he always freezes in this position for photos?

My deepest condolences @Tinman. May @Mrs Tinman rest in peace.

I've done this in the past and had the same issues as you Douglas, so stopped...

And if you don't delete the images, you will reach your allowed space limit quite quickly. When my items are sold, I only remove the images for that reason, the rest is remaining, if there was a way to let them without reaching my allowed space limit, I would do so...

When I saw the title I thought you had bought an old VHS cassette player... 🤦🏻

A few notes misplaced in terms of tempo, especially in the beginning and the end ... that has always been chaotic that said, but, yeah, what a leader he was and what a tune. My all time favourite of The Who. Thanks for sharing, never heard it before too.

Just in case, I bought the VI Labs Modern D (another Steinway D but this time not an old German one, but a new ... New York version with all the progress done since so many years by Steinway) software today, and apart from a nightmarish download (I ended up using Edge as Chrome was very slow even with a 1 GB connection and giving faults in the RAR file), it's really the best piano sampling software I have ever heard, even better than the VSL Synchron Steinway D that was already excellent. The sound is even more authentic and you can configure so many things that it will take some time to toy with everything, but I've already made my own preset to sound like when you're playing the real deal just sitting in front of the beast. The bass part is so huge and powerful, the mid part of the keyboard sounds like a piano and not a synth, and even more important the higher part where there is no more damping gives a real piano sound, not a toy piano breaking glass tone. It's also working as a standalone. Best buy, so far and not that expensive, but you'll need WinRar as it's the only one working to extract those RAR files...

Firewood is certainly the right brand name... 🤦🏻🤔😂

ZKKT

I like the axe grinder made pickguards. 🤪

Was about to say that his granddad must have owned a DeLorean, but went in the wrong time direction... 🤪🤦🏻

I also prefer the tone of a passive bass, but certainly not a Fender, except if I have made a complete shielding, which will turn it into a usable instrument. I can't figure how come they still can sell so badly made instruments at such a high price tag, especially custom shop ones.

I guess you are the proud owner of a gold plated wheelbarrow with a square wheel...

Rise ... if s/he still can with a triple hernia and some broken vertebrae... 🤔🤪😂

Seen it too... AI is still not that good.

But what is music? It's perfectly summarised in the title of this really great 30 years old tune.

And cut yourself a leg!

Check Warwick...

It was an entry model, so I guess it's more a Vietnamese model. Here is all the data I have.

Which model as there can be a huge difference? The Brian Bromberg signature was and still is excellent.

First proposition for sure.

Check Lord of the Strings website: https://lordofthestrings.com/en/bass?types=4&categories=6&subcategories=30&order=3 Is Markus Millar the German Marcus Miller ... ? 🤔😂😉