Bass / No. 708
8-string fan fret Octave Acoustic Bass Guitar – Opus Virtuoso – Concorde
The story
First in the world luthier acoustic bass guitar with the following innovations:
- ‘ACOUSTIC TUBES’ inside the guitar neck with natural Baltic amber outlets
- Top with ‘S-WAVE’ top construction
- ARS (Acoustic Resonance System) B&S
- SIGMOIDAL JOINT of the guitar sides
- African Ebony pinless BRIDGE with DRILLED HOLES encrusted with natural Baltic amber and mammoth bone
- Amber HEADLIGHT
- Amber BACKLIGHT ROSETTE (Concorde style)
- Amber FLOATING ARMREST
Specifications
- Body
- Extra large Bass
- Frets
- 14 to the body; 24 total
- Double-Top
- 1954 Cedar of Lebanon (with a certificate of authenticity)(top) / Alpine Spruce from Tirol (bottom)
- Back&Sides
- Pepperwood Burl with sapwood
- Neck
- Turkowiak asymmetric made of Mod.Magnolia, two dual-action truss rods
- Fingerboard
- Elevated, African Ebony, compound radius: 26″
- Plates
- Natural Baltic amber
- Shape
- Open (Modern / Hollow)
- Logo
- Natural mammoth Bone
- Soundhole
- Single top-offset, bound with Ebony; Concorde-style
- Heel
- Cup / Natural Baltic amber
- Logo
- Natural mammoth bone
- Nut
- Natural mammoth bone, hand-shaped, polished, and semi-scalloped, 45,5 mm width
- Saddle
- Natural mammoth bone, hand-shaped, polished and semi-scalloped
- Tuners
- Highest-quality, Schaller single black mini posts, ratio 1:18
- Binding
- Ebony (Master Grade)
- Fingerboard markers
- Side: Natural mammoth bone ø 2 mm at 3, 5, 9, 15, 17, 19 frets and concentric side markers ø 3 mm at 7, 12 (double) inlaid with natural Baltic amber
- Frets
- EVO-GOLD (nickel-free)
- Cutaway
- Florentine (sharp)
- Scale length
- 32-34″ (812,8 – 863,6 mm) fanned
- Varnish
- Highly-resonant, anti-static (own recipe), hand polished, high-gloss with blue burst
- Inlay
- Concorde style made of natural Baltic amber with white & black mother of pearl, mammoth bone, white amber, and ebony – engraved
- Warranty
- Life-time
- Tuning
- Regular, Octave
- Hardcase
- High-quality