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We've had some absolutely stellar spring type weather here! So happy some of our outdoor venues are active again. We played last night for a event, about 150 folks in the beautiful 75 degree evening.
I guess I started this thread because it hit me last night just how fortunate I am to have a instrument that I adore. It's always there for me, fits me like a old comfy pair of Levi's. I know I've sung many praises about this guitar. We've done tons of gigs together and it never fails to deliver the right stuff.
My Bob built 1990 Benedetto Cremona will always be..my one and only love.
How about fellow forum members? Do you have a special friend that you perform with that you cherish?
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As long as you can play G7, it's a good guitar! 
I have a 1840 classical guitar by the Roudhloff Brothers of London...from my cold, dead hands.
Left to right: Ramirez 1A (sold), Bernabe 640 after Torres and Ramirez 1st (considering sale), and finally the Roudholoff Brothers' "Melophonic" guitar (never for sale).
The Melophonic has claims to being the first X-braced guitar. Arguments are plenty that Martin beat them to it, but research by Dr James Westbrook relates - with evidence - that a soprano singer who accompanied herself on guitar, was on a world tour. In London she walked into the Rouhdloff Brothers shop, and purchased one of their first Melophonic guitars. She then continued her tour to America, where she met C. F. Martin, who was very impressed with her guitar...the rest is argument!
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Great story, and a stunning instrument. I’m lost for words, really, about your loss. Best wishes.
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My 1999 EPI Emperor Regent. It's the resident archtop at my country home. Every time I take it out, I wonder about the two Gibsons and a Benedetto I have in the other place. Said several times, and I repeat: the last one to leave, probably after my lights are off.
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ca. 1850 German double bass.
This bass is the "Ship of Theseus" signature model. Over the past 175-ish years it's had a lot of work done but there is no question that it is the real deal. I got it from the Uptons almost exactly ten years ago. A couple of years later they ran through it from stem to stern and it's been right ever since.
This is my only double bass. I gig it all the time. I have an EUB for winter rehearsals and summer stages, but the DB goes out a lot.
It sounds magnificent; it's a constant inspiration to me. Strung with Spirocore Mittle Orchs it is full but crisp with a gigantic dynamic range. I've got a car-full of professional DB amplification gear but when needs must this instrument can carry a 17-piece big band rehearsal with no amp. Gary Upton talks about 'honing' -- working over time to get the utmost that a particular instrument can deliver -- and this is one of the instruments he was talking about. (I cannot say that I deliver the utmost this bass can offer but that's another topic.)
I've owned plenty of DBs over the decades but the sound of this bass is in another league altogether. I never thought that I would own bass like this one and there's no way I will ever get another one.
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