Looking for Zimmerly Silly bass fretless

[Alberto Rigoni]

Hello guys,

I'm looking exactly for this bass: Zimmerly Silly Bass fretless, sold some years ago by Reverb.

Please let me know if you know who could be the owner today.

thanks a lot

Alberto

[itu]

Zon Hyperbass?

Some Wishbasses looked as bad/ good.

 

How many 3 octave fretless basses there are? Those two mentioned, Tune, and there was that excellent looking dark bass with the pickup hidden under the fretboard. Name forgotten, sorry.

[Hellzero]

Jerzy Drozd is also making some 3 octaves basses or more precisely 36 positions basses.

[Hellzero]

Conklin and RMI (same look as the Zon Hyperbass) made a lot of 36 positions basses.

[Hellzero]

I guess it's this bass you're mentioning, @itu:

 

[Hellzero]

Or maybe, it's the Pagelli bass, a true work of art and, to me, one of the most beautiful bass ever made:

 

[Rollo]

  On 05/09/2023 at 21:23, Hellzero said:

Or maybe, it's the Pagelli bass, a true work of art and, to me, one of the most beautiful bass ever made:

 

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Beautiful bass, design close to a Marleaux Diva. 👌

[NikNik]

Looks like MG

[Hellzero]

  On 06/09/2023 at 05:53, Rollo said:

Beautiful bass, design close to a Marleaux Diva. 👌

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In fact Marleaux has been inspired by the Pagelli to make his Diva model, and the Pagelli shown above with the volume control à la Leduc was made as a special edition very small run (5 instruments IIRC) by ... Gerald Marleaux himself.

 

Looping the loop. 😉

[Hellzero]

  On 06/09/2023 at 08:19, NikNik said:

Looks like MG

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Yes, but the bass Alberto is after is a Zimmerly, a real luthier, and it has been used by the late Randy Coven.

 

https://m.facebook.com/people/Zimmerly-Bass-Guitars/100063082547861/

 

[NikNik]

  On 06/09/2023 at 08:40, Hellzero said:

Yes, but the bass Alberto is after is a Zimmerly, a real luthier, and it has been used by the late Randy Coven.

 

https://m.facebook.com/people/Zimmerly-Bass-Guitars/100063082547861/

 

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A 'real luthier'?  Does that imply the MG ones are machine made?
 

[Hellzero]

Yep.

[NikNik]

  On 06/09/2023 at 09:11, Hellzero said:

Yep.

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AH! I didn't know that!

[BigRedX]

  On 06/09/2023 at 05:53, Rollo said:

Beautiful bass, design close to a Marleaux Diva. 👌

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IIRC there were some Pagelli badged basses built by Marleaux. Certainly when I asked Pagelli about getting a "Golden Bass" made he pointed me in the direction of Marleaux who then ignored all my emails.

[Hellzero]

  On 06/09/2023 at 10:00, BigRedX said:

 

IIRC there were some Pagelli badged basses built by Marleaux. Certainly when I asked Pagelli about getting a "Golden Bass" made he pointed me in the direction of Marleaux who then ignored all my emails.

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  On 06/09/2023 at 08:35, Hellzero said:

In fact Marleaux has been inspired by the Pagelli to make his Diva model, and the Pagelli shown above with the volume control à la Leduc was made as a special edition very small run (5 instruments IIRC) by ... Gerald Marleaux himself.

 

Looping the loop. 😉

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Do you sometimes read what others write?

[BigRedX]

  On 06/09/2023 at 10:11, Hellzero said:

Do you sometimes read what others write?

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Yes I did. AFAIK the Marleaux version of the Pagelli Bass was a different instrument to the Diva, hence my comment.

[Hellzero]

  On 06/09/2023 at 10:16, BigRedX said:

 

Yes I did. AFAIK the Marleaux version of the Pagelli Bass was a different instrument to the Diva, hence my comment.

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So you didn't read.

[Alberto Rigoni]

Anyway seems no one knows how can get exactly that one

[BigRedX]

  On 06/09/2023 at 10:19, Hellzero said:

So you didn't read.

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We're obviously interpreting what you have written in two different ways.

[Hellzero]

  On 06/09/2023 at 11:38, Alberto Rigoni said:

Anyway seems no one knows how can get exactly that one

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Why don't you simply ask the seller, Alberto?

 

Zimmerly Silly Bass .....Fretless extended range custom bass https://reverb.com/item/27101

 

[NikNik]

Was it your first bass?😉

[Alberto Rigoni]

  On 06/09/2023 at 11:47, Hellzero said:

Why don't you simply ask the seller, Alberto?

 

Zimmerly Silly Bass .....Fretless extended range custom bass https://reverb.com/item/27101

 

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I did, he wrote to the buyer but no reply... I also sent a letter from italy to buy home address!  Crazy!