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Manson Kestrel


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  • 1 year later...

My god i used to own one just like this but with a single pickup in the P position, played lovely and had ridicolous controls with masses of top i seem to recall, but the thing weighed the same as a small car, at least on my skinny 17 y/o neck.
Am desperately trying to upload a pic, but it's just not happening.

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Manson - check, Thunderbird Red - check, bad news 80's atire - check :o

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http://i1281.photobucket.com/albums/a506/jjay69/MansonBass1_zps69ec4d7e.jpg

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  • 1 month later...

[quote name='starman' timestamp='1243951698' post='503866']
Does anyone know anything about a Manson Kestrel bass?
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The bass above is a Merlin.

Here's a pic of me with a Merlin fretless taken some 30 years go.
The green one bottom left is a Kestrel.

[IMG]http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae181/gelfin5959/Merlin.jpg[/IMG]

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  • 11 years later...

Wow, looking at the dates bandied around my Kestrel could have been a ‘prototype’ for the model produced under that name? I know it was one of the 1st 100 instruments he made (dated 1981).

Sports the single Kent Armstrong & still sounds amazing! Has this ‘oink’ I’ve not heard on another bass. With the through neck I can’t get the action as low as I’d like but I’m not usually up the dusty end!

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