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The late Eddie van Halen made a similar slaughter to his Kramer and everybody loved it. Maybe it's just missing the stripes...

It has LOXX Strap Locks system. At this price, why not give it a try. It will need some decent pickups screws. The sunken pole pieces are maybe there for a more balanced sound... Ask for a soundclip.

He made one, at least, that seemed to "work". Here is the Ergo Viola da Gamba. That said the band name couldn't be more well chosen...

I had an Ergo 6 strings too, and it is indeed very similar, except that this Viola da Gamba doesn't seem to have been made by a 5 years child pretending to be a luthier...

Here's Jordi Savall, the master of medieval music playing a short piece with an acoustic one.

It's a typical Viola da Gamba, a late medieval contender of the double bass, the cello, the violin and also the guitar... The frets were made out of gut and movable to tune accordingly to the piece to play, like on a sitar. There's indeed an Ergo look here, but no sure it is one.

I will work with any box, not only cereal ones, unless you are a cereal killer.

I feel for you. It happened to me once, but not because of slap, because I made an audition with a fretless for a heavy stoner band... You used a strategic marketing system which consists in saying to people not to focus on a weak point to force them to focus on it. It's a natural human reaction. It's used to force people to focus on an unique selling point presented as a weakness when it's absolutely not one. Your weakness is a real one and by telling them, they simply focused on it and missed the rest. You've been honest, which is great : you are a bassist after all. 🙂 Next time, just play and when you get the job, improve your weak point. We live and learn every day...

Theoretically yes, but when I hear someone playing a piano he has tuned, I feel good, whatever the key signature is. He has been tuning pianos for schools, privates, festivals, classical musicians, jazz musicians, ... and each time a piano he has tuned is played, you can see a smile on the player face on the first notes. I have no other explanations, but I'll start learning the usual way, for sure.

Funny, because the Just Intonation tuning sounds perfect to my ears as there are no more notes wobbling. To my ears it's a delight, but it's something I know for as long as I can remember. Next Thursday I'm starting to learn the piano (which is the epitome of Equal Temperament tuning) : wish me luck as I think the intervals will hurt my ears. My teacher has perfect pitch, so it will be great fun. That said I know a piano tuner who tunes the pianos his way (he's a master conservatory singer) and it's closer to the Just Intonation than the Equal Temperament.

Very good catch @spacecowboy, these early Zak-Mayones basses were, for sure, Warwick copies, but at the time, they were better than the original. As @LukeFRC noticed, the structure of the neck wood looks like walnut (bete) indeed. The stripes are certainly wenge just like the fretboard. If you look here, it seems right except for the fingerboard mentioned as palisander which means rosewood, but is clearly not. And bodo, which other name is boire (another wood close to the afzelia) is maybe the headstock veneer... For the record, loads of Jerzy Drozd basses have an etimoe, close to afzelia (Warwick filiation again) without being one, body.

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Check just before, here is what you asked for @Nail Soup !

Here's the most interesting video concerning the difference between 4 ways to tune a guitar (and also microtonal guitar) including the Equal Temperament and the Just Intonation. If you don't want to hear without knowing what is what, go straight to 3:32 and you'll get all the explanations needed. It's a part of a Bach piece, by the way. Check this YouTube channel for microtonal guitar, it's a gold mine... Maybe time to listen to music differently... 😉

The fretboard is not glued anymore. The rust can be removed with some TLC. The bumps are not that big. But the main issue is definitely the fretboard. If it stays around £100~150 GBP, that's ok, over this the highest bidder will be losing his time and money. So sad to see this...

As a fretless player myself, when I practice I'm bloody perfectly pitched, but when I play with others I have to adjust my pitch to be in tune with them. That's the magic of fretless : you can play a solo with each and every note perfectly in tune and then play the rhythmic accompanying part slightly out of tune to be in tune... Here is the question (that sums it all for fretless instruments) I asked to Alain Caron during a masterclass I attended : Doesn't it bother you to play out of tune to be in tune ? He clearly understood what this meant and explained it to the assistance that was staring at me as if I was completely nuts. It took me decades to be able to listen to the piano without becoming dizzy because of this fixed temperament tuning, especially when chords or even triads were played.

Oops, wrong forum. 🤣

I don't know a Fender that doesn't have a dead spot...

I really like it !

The first Fender with an ebony fretless fingerboard is the Tony Franklin model, so 2 decades later (introduced in 2006). 😉

Sorry, this is not a Fender job at all. 😉

Ebony fingerboard in 1977 (and up to 1980 with these serial numbers) didn't exist. The logo was under the lacquer, not over it in the 70's and after. Wrong headstock size. Wrong tuners. Skunk stripe on a non maple board ?!? Fender Corona California in the 70's. 🤣 ... Run away !