Andreas Zeller for Stentor NDBD

[Kevsy71]

I've just acquired a secondhand "Andreas Zeller for Stentor" 3/4, it's my first db, and I'm having great fun with the discoverdoublebass beginner course.

 

As far as I can tell it is one of these: https://www.stentor-music.com/brands/andreas-zeller/andreas-zeller-double-bass,-solid-63/

 

Forgive the simple question, but does 

"Carved solid spruce front;

Solid maple back, sides and neck"

make it a hybrid? 

 

 

[pete.young]

Sure does. Welcome to the dark side.

[Beer of the Bass]

Hybrid usually implies the back and sides are laminated, and the description of this one says it's all solid. Though I think there have been both hybrid and all solid Zeller models, so it'd depend if you can see the lamination layers at the edges of the sides.

[Paddy Morris]

I've got a Zeller. A tiny 1/4 scale one, just for a laugh.  It's fully carved.  It sounds like yours is too.  So not a hybrid.

 

It has takes a lot of playing to wake up the tone though.

[Kevsy71]

On 28/06/2022 at 14:03, Beer of the Bass said:

Hybrid usually implies the back and sides are laminated, and the description of this one says it's all solid. Though I think there have been both hybrid and all solid Zeller models, so it'd depend if you can see the lamination layers at the edges of the sides.

Thanks - definitely looks like grain at the ribs and the grain of the top continues over the shoulders.