eddie
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Post by eddie on Dec 20, 2017 17:49:37 GMT
A few facts about the Dobro bass:
Don Young (Rancho Revelers band) supposedly owned the bass into the 1970s. When he owned it, the bass had no resonator parts and the neck was converted to fretless. Freedom Guitar bought it around 1976 from Robbie Lawrence (former Guitar Player Magazine Rare Bird column writer) The Dobro Bass was a display showpiece at Freedom Guitar's store on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, California until 2004. In 1988, the bass was refinished and refretted by flamenco guitar luthier Benito Huipe who did guitar repairs for Freedom Guitar’s Sunset store in the 1980s. In 2008, a resonator spider assembly was sand cast to fit the bass’s larger sound hole. A replacement aluminum cone was also spun, and a cover plate was spun and laser cut to match a 1930s pattern, but enlarged to fit the larger soundhole of the bass. That completed all restoration work done to the bass. In 2011 the bass was listed on ebay, but it did not reach the minimum bid. The pictures on ebay are of the actual bass in its present condition.
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