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11-15-2012, 02:29 PM
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Acoustic Basses - any "boutique" luthiers offer them?
doing some research on acoustic basses (not the stand-up variety) and would like to know which boutique guitar luthiers, if any, will build one?
any help would be appreciated. bill 
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11-15-2012, 02:44 PM
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Michael Tobias made a nice lil' acoustic guitar-style bass for Dave Holland.
I don't know if he'd be interested in making others - I played one of myrtle several years ago that was really nice. Contact him at Michael Tobias Designs (MTD). mtdbass.com
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11-15-2012, 02:59 PM
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11-15-2012, 03:46 PM
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Bill, one luthier who has done a lot of research on acoustic bass guitars and acoustic baritone guitars whose instruments I admire a lot is David Berkowitz:
http://www.berkowitzguitars.com/ http://www.berkowitzguitars.com/acou...-guitars.shtml I'm not a bass player, other than to use one in a jam session once in a very great while, but I am a serious acoustic baritone guitar player, and David builds the most consistently excellent baritones I've ever encountered. My conversations with him about these lower register instruments have shown me that he takes them seriously as instruments in their own right, with their own design needs. So it's not a case of him just doing a larger scale version of his guitar designs - both his baritones and acoustic bass guitars have been designed from the ground up. They show it, too, by how well they project, sound and function overall. I'm impressed by them, and I'm not all that easily impressed. Hope this helps. Wade Hampton Miller
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11-16-2012, 09:35 AM
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Harry Fleishman has built some unique and amazing sounding acoustic basses (including one with a top that was half Cedar half Spruce).
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