Robbie McIntosh, Busan Model, 2019

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Price: $35,000

Description:

Robert Macintosh Certificate of Merit

  • This is Robbie's 13th bass. 

  • The top is made from slab cut, eastern white pine that came from floorboards in a home in Greenwich, NY, that was built in 1785. The back, sides, and scroll are made from cherry. 

  • The bass:

    • comes with an ebony fingered C extension with 4 gates

    • 41 1/2” string length

    • upper bouts 20 1/4”, C bouts 15”, lower bouts 26 5/8”

    • rib depth 7 7/8”, back length 44”

    • is a copy of a 1749 Domenico Busan

    • was entered into the makers competition at the 2019 ISB Convention at Indiana University and won a Certificate of Merit for Tone

    • has that typical Venetian sound quality

    • has a full, round bottom end but with a complex and dense mid-range and a clear, open top.