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Re: Budget low C bass options in Europe

Author: Chris P
Date: 2023-07-17 01:08

With any Chinese instrument bought brand new with the intention of having it as a regular and reliable player, you'll inevitably have to justify and factor in the cost of a full service and maybe some other keywork modifications done to it to make it into the reliable player you want.

The long rods on these Chinese basses are hollow, having a centre hole running all the way through them of around 0.9mm or thereabouts, so you'll soon find if you're grinding a recess in them for whatever reason (for clearance with a pillar or a flat for an adjusting screw tip), you'll soon find out if you cut deeply enough, you'll hit the hollow centre.

I only discovered this when I was filling the ends of the long rods with oil that the oil disappeared deep into what I thought was the countersink, but turned out it was a hollow running the entire length of them all. I suspect they're either formed from nickel silver sheet or extruded and formed into a much larger hollow nickel silver tube, then drawn down to the final outer diameter (I think they're 3.8mm to 4mm).

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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