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Fidus label on the power supply

There's been a few comments re 'regular' Stingrays not being as consistant as Specials; I have to say of all of the mainstream manufacturers (where you can buy an off the shelf bass) that I've played in the last 40+ years, I'd say that Musicman USA basses have been (arguably) the most consistant in terms of quality over pretty much every other brand and they've certainly not had peaks and troughs like some brands. Are they almost always consistantly heavy... yes. However, with consistancy I'm referring to hardware, electronics, fit and finish. You are always going to get the odd bass that came off the production line late on a Bank Holiday shift but by and large they are one of the few bass brands that I'd buy blind (even used).

It doesn't seem so long ago that £800 was the going rate for a pukka full fat USA Stingray and you could pick one up on BC most weeks... I said 'seems'! I'd be surprised if there are many around as cheap as £1200 and I'd expect a regular/non-special to be closer to £1500.

Love (most) of her stuff as a listener and I've played more than a few of her songs over the years and he bass lines feel comfortable and the kind of thing that I'd improvise/write. Lots of respect from me for SC.

Are those pups DiMarzio? That preamp is period correct. If you haven't already ordered the new preamp can I suggest you fit a new battery and a jack socket... hiss doesn't sound like the issue of low battery but well worth a try. It likely has had a new jack socket at some time but they are notoriously bad for breaking down; you'd be advised to fit a new one any way, even with a new preamp.

As @dmccombe7 has said it could have been ordered new with a multitude of pups and preamps (if I'm honest, less so the pre). In the 80's, especially pre 88-89, Warwick would take modifications from their distributors and tweak basses to suit customer orders. This was pre Custom Shop and literally a person in the factory would have picked up what you wanted. Around 86-87 I was going to order a Streamer but I liked the Jazz pups that I'd seen in an advert for the new 'Stage II' bass, the local distrubutor said they could get me a Stage I bass (visible neck) with the SSII pups... and I could have the Yin/Yan inlays at NO extra cost. They really wanted to have a share of the market! Warwick offered their first basses with EMG, Bartolini, Seymour Duncan and even Alembic pups (and I bet I've missed a couple! Saying all of that, owners sometimes buy an instrument and make mods on day 1 of owning, so there's no guarantee that didn't happen. Pics would help.

They'll log onto their system this morning and hopefully find an inbox full of messages saying this has a legal owner!

Say 'what'?

I might be simplifying it but as I see it, it is all about the disposal of stolen goods... or at least goods not owned by the seller; rather than counterfeit et al.

Good idea. I've done likewise; they can't ignore multiple messages... hopefully.

Oooof dear me that is a great spot! It'll be interesting to see how that plays out as the person putting that in the sale has a lot... ONE question to answer. Hope the rightful owner can get it back though.

I think I've had a PX3 in my gear draw for 20+ years and it's not been used more than 5-6 times!

Don't get me started Bill! As a school teacher I was required to educate pupils from Y1 to 6th form to be able to use feet, inches, miles, oz, lbs, pints, gallons (but not quarts) etc AND mm, cm, km, ml, L et al... still teaching this even though we went decimal 55 years ago! Honestly it used to do my head in! I should add that I was still doing this up to 7 years ago when I retired aged 55.21 years.