Price Drop - Yamaha TRB-5P (SERIAL NUMBER: 4Z08048) including Original Hardcase - Now £1200 - *SOLD* £1500 West Sussex

[DanD]

 

Up for sale is this fantastic example of the early made in Japan Yamaha TRB-5P with original hard case. The instrument sounds superb, plays wonderfully and is in excellent condition for its age.

SPECS

Figured Maple Body with Thru-neck Construction, the piezo pickups used on the TRB models use individual bi-morphous piezo elements for each string, all built into a specially designed bridge which is machined from solid brass.

Because piezo pickups directly pick up the resonance of the instrument body, the body itself must be made from the finest woods and designed to deliver rich, deep tone. The neck-thru design of these basses affords the best possible foundation for this amazing sound. 

SERIAL NUMBER: 

4Z08048 (1986-89)

CONDITION: 

Excellent, light marks on the body lacquer, a small number of marks on the head stock and some minor damage to one corner of the hardcase. 

COLOR/FINISH: 

Turquoise/Gold

WEIGHT:

10lb 5oz/4.5kg

MATERIAL:
NECK - Maple/Mahogany
FINGERBOARD - Ebony
BODY - Figured Maple/Rose/Maple

NECK SIZE:
Scale length - 33-7/8 (860mm)
No. of Frets - 24
Construction - Neck-thru-Body
19mm string spacing at the bridge 

PARTS:
Hardware - Gold Plated
Bridge - BPZ5 (With Piezo)

PICKUPS:
Single Coil x2, Piezo pickup

CONTROLS:
Mixer Front P.U. & Rear P.U.
Mixer Piezo P.U. & Magnetic P.U.
Bass control
Treble control
Master Volume
Piezo Low-Cut switch

CASE: 

Original Hardshell Yamaha Case

Edited December 16, 2022 by DanD
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[mattbass6]

Wonderful basses, and that is gorgeous. GLWTS. 

[AndyTravis]

@lee650😳

[Mike]

Any sound clips out of interest?

[andybassdoyle]

Great basses. And this looks to be in very good nick.

[lee650]

Wow! I've always wanted one of these, in my favourite colour too 😍

[AngeR]

I had one of these. Best neck ever!!! Loved this bass!

 

Here’s a few videos of the bass. It’s a live recording and what you hear is the bass on the Mesa Subway Plus preamp

 

 

I hope this helps someone to grab this beast fast! 

Edited October 28, 2022 by AngeR

[andybassdoyle]

Man - that's a really nice recording and the bass sounds superb

 

Would be wasted on me - veritable pearls before swine - but someone will grab a cracker here

[DanD]

13 hours ago, Mike said:

Any sound clips out of interest?

Hi Mike, I've added a couple of examples, cheers.

[CameronJ]

Beautiful bass! I've never seen one in this colour before.

 

On the last tour I was on a few months back (I'm a theatre actor) our bass player had a dep covering a couple of performances. He turned up with one of these and I got to hear him play a bit while our sound guy sound checked him - it sounded incredible through our huge touring FOH rig. Clarity, richness, punch. And now I have GAS 

Edited October 30, 2022 by CameronJ

[therealting]

Some of the finest basses in existence, I finally got mine a couple years ago after coveting one since I was a teenager admiring the work of session legend Abraham Laboriel who had one as his main bass for quite time time. 

[kuetsum]

Always want one in amber or natural.. so tempting

[didoubass]

this bass is in my wish list but I am living in France so problem for buying it 

[DanD]

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24 minutes ago, didoubass said:

this bass is in my wish list but I am living in France so problem for buying it 

 

I could ship it to you but you probably want to play it first. 

[TheGreek]

Lovely...you'll be sorry when it sells. 

[biro]

Be still my GASsing heart...