Thank you so much!

Dear community, I wanna thank you for all the support and contacts in 2010! It´s a great pleasure for me to get in touch with you and talking about the news of lefty bassplayers and theire instruments.

It´s importent for me to wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Stay healthy and keep the contact.

Maybe we will have the chance to meet us in person. I would love it!

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Let us end up this year with new friends from Europe and the USA.

So please welcome

Norbert Hatnancik / Slowakia

Nathan Phyerstone / USA

Paolo Molinari / Italy

Updates

Philipp Ferstl / Germany

Bart Bruno / USA

Daniele_Colanzi / Italy

Benoit Poncin is looking for his previous bass!

Search bass precision Belgrado Left hand

I built this bass by a luthier. I kept it 10 years and to fund a project, I sold it but I don't have contact information for the person ... if he sells one day, I'd buy it...

I am looking for the person I sold this precision Belgrado cream lefthand in Liege 4 years ago

Please call me 0496323207 or email at poncin.benoit@gmail.com Thanks
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On the weekend of Nov. 20.-21. 2010 I got a visit from a sympathetic lefty bassplayer!

Hubert Döring, maybe someone will know him from the Lefty Bass Day in Duisburg / Germany, was doing a trip in the matter of lefty basses.

At first he instantiate a long wish to get a nice fretless bass. So he went to the music shop CMS and picked up a brand new Bassline Buster fretless. So his dream came true.

Then Hubert came for a visit into my home for talking about lefty basses over hours and hours. While Hubert was cecking out my basses, I had the chance to pickup his brand new Bassline and this wonderful Warwick Corvette $$ ltd bass.

Thanks to Hubert for this nice weekend! Hope to see you once again!

Hubert Döring and his Bassline Buster fertless...

and checking out some of my basses.

Marleaux Consat Signature

It goes on!

Each of us, who once was allowed the luxury of fulfilling its own ideas and desires built bass can put yourself in my place.

It takes a endless time, until you can hold this piece of a dream in your hands!

Therefore, Gerald Marleaux send me images of the development phase for this master piece bass. Wow men, I can´t wait to get it!

So please, Gerald, forget all the other orders and keep your hands on my Consat Signature!

By this way, regards to Clausthal-Zellerfeld, the home of Marleaux Basses!

Hope to see you very soon!

Stay in touch and give me a lot of Christmas presents with your emails and informations from the lefty bassplayer scene!

A Merry Christmas to all of you and a happy new year 2011!

Yours in music,

Arni

Dear Community!

First, I ask for your assistance in the pursuit of two left-handed basses, which were stolen in England! If you notice that the bass are somewhere offered in the intenert or if you know where they are, please send an email to me or Danny!

Thank you for your help in advance!

Hi Arni.

Just messaging you to report that two of my lovey lefty basses we've stolen from my home in Catford (south east london, uk).

If you could let the lefty community know i will be very grateful.

They are:

My 1977 Lefty Fender Mustang Bass. Natural Finish, maple neck, black pickguard. The bass has three distinct small chips on the fretboard (bottom of 5th and 8th fret, top side of 6th fret).

The other bass is a 2001 Lefty Fender Mexican Jazz Bass. White finish with a brown tortoise shell pickguard. Their is a largish chunk missing from the botom corner of the bass.

Hope you can help.

Danny.

Contact: danny.billingham[at]googlemail.com

contact number is 0044 (0) 7891423543

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But there are also good news!

We have received further support from all parts of the world. Please welcome

Peter Holman / Netherlands

Bart Whitehurst / Australia

Gene Rice / USA

Greg Loughman / USA

Iñigo Corcuera / Spain

This websites are updated:

Ray Woolley / Australia

Philippe Ciron / France

Thanks a lot to all of you!

Where are they? Epihone Thunderbird left handed!

In 2000, an Epiphone Limited Edition of the Thunderbirds left-handed were run for a short time.
For the past few years I have been watching the markets on the Internet and could find only one bass of this series. It´s owned by Peter McCulloch. All other Thunderbird at least couldn´t be found on internet.

Where are they?
Even the small volume of the Gibson Flying V basses of the 375 pieces appeared occasionally over the Internet!
If you have an explanation and perhaps even the proud owner of a Thunderbird are, let me know!

Thomas & Georg Martin (GB)

The Martin family loves to support lefty double bass players and offers this

Die Familie Martin aus England zeigt ebenfalls ein Herz für Lefties und bietet einen

"Specially made left handed Concert 3/4 model Double Bass"!

Further informations:

http://www.thomasmartin.co.uk/double_bass_news_concert_sale.asp

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As you can see on the index site of www.leftybass.com, a new old lefty bass is in town!

I will tell you more about this and more news from the lefty bassplayer scene next update.

Stay in touch,

Arni

Sep. 27th, 2010

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Hello dear Lefties,
the 2nd LeftyBassDay was 18 Sep 2010 in Duisburg. Thanks to your help was the Lefthand Basses exposition astounding sizable. There were on the one hand actual exemplars on the other hand vintage basses of different manufacturers. Very impressing was the collection of Roland Pruefer's amazing basses from the Harz (Germany low mountain range) done by the noble bass luthier Marleaux. Gerald Marleaux presented himself his masterpieces to the audience.

In total 50-60 lefthand basses could be admired and tested. Where else something like that could be done?

Impressive performances were done by Felicia Uwaje (vocals) and Knut Reiter (Bass). In addition a spontaneous gig of the berlin rockband Moshtec, Peter Masson (vocal) and Chris Brank (bass). During that memorable day Juergen Weiner any myself decided to continue the LeftyBassDays the 17 Sep 2011. Make a note in your schedule.

Thanks to all contributors and visitors

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So many new friends joined our community! Please check out these websites and say hello to our lety friends:

Glen Gregus / Japan

Juan Rojas Mancha / Spain

Ben Poncin / Belgium

Boudewijn Olthof / Netherland

Daniele Colanzi / Italy

Christian Krieg / Deutschland

Paul Arnott / United Kingdom

Alessandro Muscillo / Italy

These websites got a new update:

Carl Scarborough / Australia

Frits Jochems / Belgium

Thomas Blodig / Germany

Thanks for your friendly support!

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Arni's lefthand bassist's community is the headline of my website.

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That this sentence isn't a pure phrase, shows an international cooperation. Chris Jennings, contrabass player from France, was called to a studio recording in Tokio at the Sony Music Studios. He asked me to make a contact to the in Japan well-known bassist Nobuyuki Watanabe. He wanted to us Nobuyuki Watanabe's contrabass for the recording. And it worked.

The Community joins!

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When we talk about double basses, here is another emails I got some days before:

Dear Arni

Have a nice day!
Hope this finds you well! I do not have your news for a long time. I wonder if you want buy some double bass or other instruments or its accessory at present.
I attach some of our master bass picture for your reference.

We also have custom-made instrument, just tell me which style you like, we will make a perfect instrument for you.
At present, we build some new products, like baroque instruments, viola da gamba, a special portable double bass.

if you are interested, pls feel free to contact me.

Best regards
Wang Shuang
www.jinqu-instrument.com

Clausthal-Zellerfeld (Germany) on September 2010

10 years leadtime (… for me)

Already during last millennium I associated the Harz mountains with noble basses of Gerald Marleaux.
Now after one decase of dreaming and waiting, the dream came true. During the 2nd Leftybass days I did it. I couldn't resist the Marleaux basses of the collection of Roland Pruefer any longer.

Gerald Marleaux is building a Consat Signature according to my ideas and wishes. The wood for the top and back I have choosen during a visit in Gerald's studio 23 Sep 2010. It's wood of a basswood tree from Goslar (city of the area "Harz"). Gerald Marleaux got this wook with similar leading time than myself.

Special Thanks to Gerald for his big patience and big experience that will help to create my dream bass.

Gerald Marleaux

top wood: I call it "Goslar-Basswood"

See you later and thanks for your intrest!

Arni

Aug. 13th, 2010

Like every summer, it was a bit quiet in the Lefty-scene, but the future will promise a lot of work. However, there are again some news to report:

Not only the preparations for the "Second Lefty Bass Day" at the CMS music store in Duisburg / Germany needs a lot of time,

but also many (double-) bassplayers are on tour with the bands.

A devoted therefrom problem I would like to solve with your help. More on this later.

Please welcome new friends and left-handed bassplayers from all over the world! They send me theire informations for a personal website:

Herbert Reichardt / Germany

Alfi Mañas Alpañez / France

Hernán Silvio Merlos / Argentina

Chris Jennings / France

Sanford Santacroce / USA

Tamar Nugis / Estonia

Gergely Szabó / Hungary

updated websites:

Kenneth Fraser / Canada

Alexander Rass / Germany

Paulo Canassa / Brazil

In addition, other Lefties have reported and asked to be included in the lists. Thank you all very much!

<----- Armin Klopfer brought me my 1973 Gibson LBO lefthand!

1973 Gibson EBO
It is the last of the 27 ever produced lefthand Gibson EBO walnut!
Only 11 pieces of lefthand Gibson EBO Cherry were produced after this between 1976 and 1979!
This rare piece of music history brought me Armin Klopfer a few days ago. Negotiations on this bass extended over more than 9 months and it took thousands of miles and crossing the half-globe, I was allowed to take up this bass (and Armin of course too) in his arms! This EBO is in a such excellent condition as it will probably be almost impossible to find.
I like to thank Armin Klopfer and Ray DiNardo for all they have done for me!
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These emails reached me a few days ago:

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Joris Teepe from New York is looking for a lefty double bass to rent or borrow in North Carolina!

He´s doing gigs in Grantsboro and Aberdeen. So any help is appreciated!

The concert dates are November 5 and 6, 2010

More info at joristeepe.com

Hello,
We are a musical society that is hosting the Matt Savage Trio in Nov. His bass player suggested we ask you if you have any members in the Eastern NC area from whom we can rent a bass. We are in Oriental, NC, near New Bern.
If you can send word out to see if anyone is in this area (include Little Washington, Greenville, Jacksonville, Morehead City areas, that would be great.)
Thank you.

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Hubert Döring has brought me with his email to an idea!

The idea!
That doublebass players have very big problem with the transport of their instruments, is known. In particular, the charges for a flight are unimaginably large, apart from the risk of a damage. I get more and more emails from bassplayers who ask me for help and the possibility of a (left-handed) bass to rent or borrow at the venue.
A email from Hubert Döring (Germany) finally brought me the idea to try to collect a possible global collection of musicians and music shops, to assist in solving these problems.

Help needed!
I alone can not handle this so I need help from all of you. Therefore, please get in touch with me if you know a way to borrow for upright basses for concert evenings.

I am grateful for any help!

Contact: ArniBi@gmx.net

Okay friends, that´s it for now.

If there is something new in the scene, please get in touch with me!

Arni

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