Happy to read you Mica, Thank's

finally I found this:
 
history request
 
and the following story who put  
 
this bass mine
 
(Message edited by pierreyves on July 01, 2010)

here are news pictures taken this morning in my garden (below the page)
 
http://www.batraciens-reptiles.com/alembic.htm

Hi there, here is a small tune with two typical sounds I love to use:  
http://www.batraciens-reptiles.com/pedrosong.mp3

I hope i'm not tempting fate by revealing that I will be picking this bass up tomorrow evening from it's current owner who lives just south of London. If i'm not mistaken I will be the third owner since PierreYves owned the bass. Seems like for me at least, patience has paid off and my alembic bass search has come to an end, subject to a large inheritance or lottery jackpot win, in which case I will revive my dream spectrum guitar. :-)
Yes i'm sure you can quote where i've said this before but, now that I will have 4 and 5 stringers in the body styles and specifications that suits me I can delete my browser searches and concentrate on getting the most out of these basses.


I can see from earlier on in this thread that it has had an electronics upgrade and new pickups. I take this to mean the noise upgrade. Plus new pots, gold plating of the hardware and heat bend on the neck so it should be robust enough for many more years.

Play it well, Jazzy. 

Thanks Greg.👍🏾

That's a beautiful bass and I love the koa, congratulations!

Congratulations Jazzy... beautiful bass, play it in good health!

Congrats, stunner! (I know, have had her in my hands) :-)

Oh, beautiful! Where's the "jealous" emoji?

If I could have my dream Alembic bass... this would be it. I hope you'll post some pictures, audio, and video of you playing it so I can enjoy it vicariously.

TBH, Koa was not on my top ten body woods wishlist but this one has something about it. I have had a previous opportunitiy to buy it from the guy PierreYves sold it to but it wasn't the right time. Thankfully now is the time.

Congratultations!  Your new bass reminds me of my Series I in Koa.  I love the wood.

Just got it home and played briefly with my series I shorty as well to compare without any q switched in. This one certainly is warmer in tone overall and less crisp on the top end than my series I and has more up front bottom end. I don't know how old the strings are which could be a factor. I can certainly hear what Mica said when i played it. I will give it a good session tomorrow when i can turn up a bit more. I will see if i have a round pickup selector in my spares kit. But yeah really happy with it.

Excellent score! Congratulations!