Epihone Rivioli Oh my Gawd

[bumnote]

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Edited February 22, 2009 by bumnote

[obbm]

That is just pure wanton vandalism.

[Macko1968]

Agreed.

I see in the questions part at the bottom one my biggest bug-bears, some moron who doesn't know when to use "except" and "accept".

[skankdelvar]

Y'know, someone got that back from the luthier's and thought "God, it looks [i]so[/i] good now."

sigh....

[Hamster]

I've seen far too many crimes against innocent basses - it's driven me to drink, and I'm off for a very large scotch right now!

[The Admiral]

And people used to rip out their old fireplaces too.........

Time has a habit of turning 'reasonabe' acts into wanton vandalism, and I suspect this may have been done when this was just another second hand bass - and didn't have the cache it would have now.

My old physics teacher actually had an original Rivoli - which he had bought in Liverpool in the mid 60s, when he was a very early Beatles fan, and I played it a few times at school. It was a lovely guitar, but with his preferred flat wounds (unchanged for about 15 years) it just thumped - no treble at all - very McCartney I suppose. He used to use a graphic pedal to try and get some top end, but, given that he used an AC50 head and a 1x18 Vox cab, it was hoping a bit. Lovely guy - haven't seen him for years, and I hope he and his Rivoli are doing better than this one.

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