STOLEN from Studio 99, Nashua, NH
sometime between 11 pm on Wednesday 1/20/10 and 6 pm on Thursday 1/21/10
one of my former students, Alex, playing the bass
1980s-era, custom-made fretless electric bass:
- ebony fingerboard
- blonde Warmouth neck
- black Schaller pickups
- black Schaller tuning machines
- black bridge, built up underneath with lucite to make the action work right (VERY unusual --- this was a custom re-build of a Sears catalog bass, where everything on it was new by the time we were done, with the exception of the original piece of wood.)
IMMENSE sentimental value. This bass got me through Berklee College of Music and years of gigging with a ska band, as well as two decades of teaching. This is not just a musical instrument: it's a work of art and testament to several eras.
The bass is signed on its back by the artist who painted it, and the date: "KREGEL 4/88"
Reported to the Nashua Police Department at 8:00 pm 1/21/10
detail of the extremely distinctive paint job ... "granite-look" background with green and blue patches, as well as 1950s-schematic-looking black graphics scattered everywhere. Near where the neck meets the body, there's a little black "radio transmitter tower" graphic.CUSTOM...no brand, no serial number. The artist's signature ... and that paint job...and the lucite used under the bridge to build it up in the process of putting this custom bass together...are the only real identifying markings.
The only difference between the bass as it is now and this picture is that there is now a white plastic pickguard which covers the area around the pickups and the EQ/volume knobs.
Please contact:
Elise MacDonald
at 603-562-5179
or elise.m2@gmail.com
if you have any information.
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