Fancy a piece of top-notch contemporary sculpture?

[Happy Jack]

http://www.lorfordsantiques.com/product/DA019777-Aluminium-and-Bronze-Double-Bass

[bassace]

Does it have a D or Eb neck?

[Jack]

That's really pretty.

[geoffbassist]

Wow. That's a crazy instrument!

[Paul S]

Is it any good for metal?

[Owen]

Action looks a bit high, otherwise I would be all over it like a bad rash.

[stingrayPete1977]

I wonder what it sounds like?

[JoeEvans]

A quick google suggests that Christian Maas is maybe not the most groundbreakingly original artist - looks to me like he saw a picture of one of the 30s US aluminium double basses (which do look great) and knocked out half a dozen of them as sculpture.

[Happy Jack]

Could have been worse ... could have been Heinz Baked Beans cans.

[Owen]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-4-rockabilly-double-bass-custom-painted-metalflake-/182551720705?hash=item2a80ee3301:g:v0wAAOSwvihY-12G

[Beer of the Bass]

So this is a piece of sculpture the shape and size of a double bass, which is not a double bass? Like, a genuine Bass Shaped Object? I suppose it's an interesting idea, in a Magritte's pipe sort of way...

[Happy Jack]

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Yup, saw that but it will only look cool (if that is one's idea of "cool") until the metalflake gets all chipped and scratched, at which point it will start to look like something owned by Gary Glitter.

[Owen]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1493890305' post='3291517'] Yup, saw that but it will only look cool (if that is one's idea of "cool") until the metalflake gets all chipped and scratched, at which point it will start to look like something owned by Gary Glitter. [/quote]

if that is one's idea of "cool" - you KNOW that is my idea of cool!

[Happy Jack]

Metalflake 1 : 0 Leopardskin (after extra time, Metalflake will now play Perspex in the semi-final)

[NickA]

£6800 ???!! you could buy a decent double bass for that!