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Nov. 08, 2009 Dear lefties, a lot of things had be done in summer, so it´s time to use the fall for rehabilitation! I got many emails since the 1. Lefty Bass Day in September, asking for a recapitulation of this event. In fact, Jürgen of CMS and I will do the 2. Lefty Bass Day on Sep. 18th. 2010 in Duisburg / Germany. So mark this day with a big cross in your calender. For some suggestions or ideas I'd be very happy. Okay, many lefty bassists have discovered our new page and sent their information. My thanks goes to: And a lot of updates are done for the following websites: Peter Paul van Kouteren / Netherlands Thank you very much! |
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www.lefty-guitars.de
Most of the bassplayers play guitar as well. With an incredible meticulousness Zade Sven has created a website for left-handed guitarist who has an unprecedented database of available left-handed guitars. So much effort deserves attention! |
CU in Viersen! . . .
Wal is back!!! A perfect sensation! |
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. Peter McCulloch / USA wrote for the users of www.leftybass.com: I'm writing to you because I have some news you might want to share on your site. Gaskell Guitars, an Australian guitar company that ONLY makes lefty guitars, has officially released their left handed Gibson Explorer-style bass called the X-Bass. I received mine last week and wrote a full review of it on Harmony Central. It's a Chinese made bass, but the quality is better than any of the Epiphone basses I've tried. I attached a picture of mine (Yes, there's my bass in the picture being tenderly cared for by that Aussie beauty, LOL). For more info, check out:
Speaking of which, here's some more lefty news for you
that you might want to mention. A company called Industrial Radio is producing a new
Midi Bass and taking orders now. The best part: They will make lefties too! These basses
are not cheap, but it is one of my dream basses, since I play synth parts with my Carvin
GK-equipped bass in a cover band I work with.
That´s it for now. A lot of duties and responsibilities are waiting, to keep this website up to date. Hope to hear from you soon and stay in touch, Arni |
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Times go by and so there are only a few days before the 1st Lefty Bass Day will start. I wonna thank Fa. CMS MUSIC EQUIPMENT for all the perfect support for this event! Now it´s our turn to make this day a success. I hope to see you there!
Oskar
Rozsa / Slovakia
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I´m glad to present you this new update. It´s vacation time and some of you are not to reach. But since to last update I got nice contacts and informations. I hope you enjoy it. Please say hello to new members of our lefty website: Alon Goldshuv / Israel Thank´s a lot!!! We are glad to meet you! |
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Visitng...
...Börjes Bass and Guitar Design |
A meeting with
Jimmy Haslip (MARTa / Herford / Germany) |
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Schwalbe Competition Lefthand
Wolfgang Schwalbe (German luthier) has build a wonderful lefthand Competition 5string bass. For further informations please take a look at
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SX Akustikbass JBG30E Lefthand Baris Kiratly from Turkey asked me to post this intresting
offer of a small and limited run of a SX acoustic bass. To make this come true, 6 orders
are needed.
I can't play 32'' scale. Because I normally play 35'' you know. Warwick Alien bass looks great but it's 32''. In istanbul there is a shop named ''Senkop Muzik'' So if you like to get a lefthand SX acoustic bass, please get in touch with Baris Kiratli <bariskiratli@yahoo.com> |
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BassQuarterly Since the german music magazine BassQuaterly started in 2008, they spend space for lefthanded bassplayers. With beginning of the 5/2008 issure I was aked to write articles for it. This reports are about lefty basses of my collection and the stories about them. BassQaurterly was so kind to give me their alloance to present you this reviews from the latest issues.
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1. Lefty Bass Day Please send this email back to me, only for my information. If you bring your personal bass along, please let me know, I would love to know what kind of bass it is.
Beside your personal basses, you will have the
chance to check out lefty basses of this luthiers:
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. Concerning myself! Or maybe not? Dear friends! For the past 10 years I buy now left handed basses on the Internet. So far no problems. But what I have been experiencing for a few months has disappointed me and makes me angry! Either the proceedings for a bass stop for no recognizable reason and the seller is no longer reachable via email, or even more frustrating, they don´t want to ship the bass to Germany! But the worst thing of all is that we will agree on trade, I send the money and nothing happens! Before I will make a report I want to ask you for help! This bass has been offered to me from Italy:
Yamaha TRB 5 II L Here is my question to you: Was this bass sold back in times to Italy? If yes, to whom? The seller used advantage of the following email address: Lele <musicbyfriend@aol.it> Email: ArniBi@gmx.net What´s your experiences with those deals? Please let me know and use this forum: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Arni/forum/726741/ Arni |
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I´m sorry to tell you Wayman Tisdale passed away
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I met Jimmy Haslip and the Jellowjackets on May 24th 2009. He was a friend of Wayman Tisdale for a long time.
A report of this meeting will follow soon! |
Börjes! Wellknown basses from Germany!
I met luthier Ralf Börjes in May 2009. A report will follow soon! |
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May 2009 It´s me again! This is the second update for this month! The reason for it are the informations I got past few days: 1. Philippe Ciron / France and Christian Hirschauer / Germany have joind our website with detail informations! Thank´s! Check it out! 2. Now it´s there! An informative website for "Vester" guitars and basses: http://vesterfansite.nl/! Gerrit needs support of all "Vester" owners, so please get in touch with him! 3. CMS is working hart for the 1. Lefty Bass Day! The first results will go online very soon! Be curious! 4. I met a wonderful bassplayer and good friend! Nick Douglas, bassist (Doro Pesch) and a lefty of course!
Enjoy it and have a great time! Arni |
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May 2009 Hamish Edward Gordon / Scotland These websites got an update: Thank you all very much!
CMS-Guitars present the
Dead Butler 4-String lefty (5 strings are available as well)
and Gaskell Guitars (Australia)
contacted me to let me knoow, that they also build handmade lefthand-bassguitars without extra charge. I visit to their websites is well worth while. That´s for now. Stay in touch, |
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April 2009
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March 2009
2. Stefan Fulde, Chief Editor of "Bass
Quarterly", has given me the opportunity, to publish an article about lefthandbassplayer
in every issue.
3. The Musicshop "CMS" in Duisburg will host the probably first LeftyBassDay ever in cooperation with "Arnis Lefthand Bassplayer Community"
Following website got an update: Paul Simpson / England and Alexander Rass / Germany
On the 02nd April 2009 I will be visiting
the "Frankfurter Musikmesse" (Music Exibition in Frankfurt) and I will be
keeping a look out for all kinds of new developments. I will report later. |
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