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Can you ID this double neck?!


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A friend of mine has inherited this fascinating instrument and he's trying to identify it.... and get a value on it...

 

I don't have any info except that he believes it to be late 60's/early 70's, the pickups say 'Baldwin' on them and the tuning heads say 'made in West Germany'. I believe they could be Schallers....

 

Any help would be appreciated!

 

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I think the Schaller tuners (M4, by the looks) place it at 70s rather than 60s. The pickups are Baldwin, (Google tells me 60s Italian-made single coils with double rows of poles) with bits of the lettering looking deliberately removed to make them read 'ALDW'. Odd. Bridges look of similar vintage but not ringing any bells.

 

I'd hazard a guess it's early/mid 70s, and probably inspired by some of the oddities played by the likes of Squire & Rutherford at the time. Very likely a one off by a luthier or talented 'visionary' home builder! Proper prog bass, that is.

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Could be A-A 30" baritone on the 6-string neck.

 

I think we need some more information like scale length and photos of the neck joints and whatever is under the control cavity cover.

 

If it is a 4 and 6 string bass the reason for both will be string spacing and therefore the playing technique each neck lends itself to.

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