BASTOCK235 – 3/4 Czek flatback- replica of an old Bohemian style bass – SOLD

Whitey’s bass is a 3/4 size replica of an old Bohemian style bass. Made by Pierre Josephs in California. One of a Kind Vintage Bass

 

In his own words, an excerpt (on pg. 227), from Whitey Mitchell’s autobiography, “Hackensack To Hollywood: My Two Show Business Careers”: I’d outgrown my comeback basses and it was time for a real, hand-carved instrument. When Marilyn and I went on that Alaska cruise with son Brian, he and his fellow musicians told us about a bass maker in Larkspur, California, an arty community just north of San Francisco. We found the guy they were talking about, Pierre Josephs, who had played with Stan Kenton’s band. We looked around his shop and there were lots of great basses, but the one that caught my eye was a replica of a very old Bohemian bass that he’d been working on intermittently for nine years. I could have bought the two-hundred-year old original bass for less money, but it was full of cracks and buzzes. I made him an offer on the unfinished replica, which he’d been making for himself and he agreed to finish the bass for me. It’s impossible to describe how gorgeous, unique and old-European the bass looks. And it plays even better than it,looks. Once I got used to the mensure, I began to play better than I’d ever played in my life. My new bass was the first hand-carved instrument I’d owned since the one that cost fifteen cartons of cigarettes that brother Red Mitchell traded to me, which I’d used for most of my musical career, and it was ready just in time for a wonderful gig that came along”.

 

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Whitey’s bass is a 3/4 size replica of an old Bohemian style bass. Made by Pierre Josephs in California. One of a Kind Vintage Bass

 

In his own words, an excerpt (on pg. 227), from Whitey Mitchell’s autobiography, “Hackensack To Hollywood: My Two Show Business Careers”: I’d outgrown my comeback basses and it was time for a real, hand-carved instrument. When Marilyn and I went on that Alaska cruise with son Brian, he and his fellow musicians told us about a bass maker in Larkspur, California, an arty community just north of San Francisco. We found the guy they were talking about, Pierre Josephs, who had played with Stan Kenton’s band. We looked around his shop and there were lots of great basses, but the one that caught my eye was a replica of a very old Bohemian bass that he’d been working on intermittently for nine years. I could have bought the two-hundred-year old original bass for less money, but it was full of cracks and buzzes. I made him an offer on the unfinished replica, which he’d been making for himself and he agreed to finish the bass for me. It’s impossible to describe how gorgeous, unique and old-European the bass looks. And it plays even better than it,looks. Once I got used to the mensure, I began to play better than I’d ever played in my life. My new bass was the first hand-carved instrument I’d owned since the one that cost fifteen cartons of cigarettes that brother Red Mitchell traded to me, which I’d used for most of my musical career, and it was ready just in time for a wonderful gig that came along”.

 

Consignment Bass

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