Just saw this bass on FB today and wondered a bass of this magnitude has ever emerged from the alembic workshop?
If not what is the largest number of strings on a bass that alembic has made, excluding the bases with octave strings like the spyders etc.
The most stringed alembic i am aware of is this one, the 8 string bass that Trip Wamsley used to own.
http://www.alembicguitars.net/info/fc_trip.html (http://www.alembicguitars.net/info/fc_trip.html)
(http://www3.alembicguitars.net/img/trip_frontview.jpg)
There is also Mark Shepard's 8: http://www.alembicguitars.net/info/8string.html (http://www.alembicguitars.net/info/8string.html) & https://club.alembicguitars.net/index.php?topic=8626.0 (https://club.alembicguitars.net/index.php?topic=8626.0)
Something in the back of my brain is saying I've seen pix of one with more, but things are kind of dark & dusty back there, so don't quote me on that.
Peter
Hi Peter, yes I remember that one Europa but don't recall seeing one with more strings.
Shopnight bass, though it was made for a friend of one of the employees. (so kind of illigal, shopnight?)
11 strings! : https://www.talkbass.com/threads/behold-the-hideous-claw.212098/
(https://www.talkbass.com/attachments/claw1-jpg.2648327)
Apparently it's an ongoing theme with the owner:
Peter
Oh........
If anyone is interested, I have a 9'er going cheapish.
I think the 9-string hybrid guitar/bass made for Carol Kaye probably has the most non-double-coursed-strings of any official Alembic instrument.
Thanks for that Mica. Do you know of any photos of that instrument?