fiatcoupe432 Posted June 26, 2020 Posted June 26, 2020 (edited) Great concept but at what price... https://nordic.guitars/rotator/ https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2018/11/05/bass-of-the-week-nordic-guitars-rotator/ What you think? Edited June 26, 2020 by fiatcoupe432 Quote
Maude Posted June 26, 2020 Posted June 26, 2020 A chance to own one bass instead of two? Get a grip man! 😉 1 Quote
yorks5stringer Posted June 26, 2020 Posted June 26, 2020 5000 euros for a fretless and fretted bass together. I'd get one but I don't think it would fit my bass stand.....shame. Quote
Sibob Posted June 26, 2020 Posted June 26, 2020 Literally no-one has asked for this! Good luck to them, I respect anyone who can make an instrument, but I wouldn’t part with £200 for one, let alone £6k Si 1 Quote
Cosmo Valdemar Posted June 26, 2020 Posted June 26, 2020 Excuse my ignorance, but why do the necks rotate? Quote
Doctor J Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 I admire the execution but I have never needed to switch from fretless to fretted, and vice versa, in such time as to justify paying 5 grand for it. It reminds me a little of the Born To Rock guitar Piggy played before his untimely demise. Quote
akabane Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 I find all exploration interesting in terms of instruments. However I am wondering why they went like that at it - I can see so many practical issues with this thing. I mean - if I were to do a 'multi' anything bass I'd try to do a bass version of Metheny's Picasso guitar, so it would be a multi scale, multi necks things that would have many more strings and tonal possibilities - if I have to have an unwieldly and uncomfortable instrument to play, I better be able to get out incredible sounds out of it. Just a 'fret' and 'fretless'? Not convinced. I do appreciate the reverse necks for different tuning possibilities and approaches. I don't think anybody is calling them up ordering those things. I see it as one of those 'proof of concept' instruments that eventually will die off or evolve into something actually practical - so I see no problem anywhere! Quote
akabane Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 1 minute ago, Happy Jack said: If only it had fanned frets ... Hah actually that would look very pretty - reverse fanned frets that 'meet' in the middle of the two necks Quote
BigRedX Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 2 hours ago, Doctor J said: I admire the execution but I have never needed to switch from fretless to fretted, and vice versa, in such time as to justify paying 5 grand for it. It reminds me a little of the Born To Rock guitar Piggy played before his untimely demise. At least the Born To Rock guitars and basses had useful function (eliminating the need for a truss rod) behind their design. Quote
SICbass Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 And then, of course, there’ll be the whole patenting debacle with those good ol’boys over at ZZ Top. Nightmare! Quote
Dan Dare Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 Another company aiming for the wealthy dilettante market. That money would buy you a pair of very nice fretted and fretless instruments. How hard can it be to swap over between numbers? Quote
Happy Jack Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 13 minutes ago, Dan Dare said: How hard can it be to swap over between numbers? But imagine the look on the faces of the punters at the Dog & Duck when you bring this thing along ... 1 Quote
Dad3353 Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 43 minutes ago, Happy Jack said: But imagine the look on the faces of the punters at the Dog & Duck when you bring this thing along ... "Here to sweep the chimblee, are yer..? S'over there..." 1 Quote
binky_bass Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 So utterly pointless!! I reckon I could put down a fretted and pick up a fretless in the same time it would take rotate that monstrosity. Quote
EMG456 Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 I like it... but then again I would! Would I buy it however? No. For genuine speed of swapping between fretted/fretless in a compact package, a headless, bodyless "plain" doubleneck would be quicker and in the long term probably, more robust. Quote
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 This looks like a classic example of a solution looking for a problem 1 Quote
fleabag Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 Yeah, me. I'm the problem , hence i'd like one Quote
binky_bass Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 2 minutes ago, fleabag said: Yeah, me. I'm the problem , hence i'd like one Reckon I can bodge one together for you for say 4k? You'll save 2k and you'll be supporting the 'Give Russ loadsa your cash' fund. 1 Quote
fleabag Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 I did say i'd have one but not at their prices. Or yours for that matter I can only offer £203.50 Quote
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