Re: Tune Basses(Your Experience With) Plus.....................

: Hey Guys.

: Which Tune basses do you own.,the Korean or Japanese built Tunes
: and from your experience with them,how do they rate?

: James Tejada

Hai. I'm Bernd from Holland.

Last year I bought a second-hand Tune Bass Maniac Standard for 300 euro. The bass was built in the late 80's or begin 90's, and was bought in Holland for about 900 euro. It's a very good, lightweight bass. It plays and sounds very good. I became a real Tune fan and when I play the Fender I miss my Tune.........

In my search for any backgrounds of my bass I wrote a mail to Tune, this is what they send me back:

Dear Bernd,
Sorry for our late reply to your e-mail.

First of all, I'd like to give you an information about TUNE BASSES.

Please noted that we are the owner of " Tune" brand for world market except Japan.
We have Trade mark registration for Europe, USA and Korea.

Actually Tune bass was designed by famous Japanese bass designer Mr. Hatsun Fujitany.
And WSC in Korea was a major supplier for Tune basses.

Along the way, Mr. Hatsun passed his right of Tune brand to Mr. Choi , our president of WSC.
Because he trust Mr. Choi is the right person who really understand how to build Tune based on the original specification.
During this process, one of Mr. Hatsun's staff asked him to leave the right for Tune brand usage in Japan and Mr. Hatsun granted this to him.

In the meantime, it seems that your Tune bass is made in Japan.

We're sorry we couldn't help you on this matter.

Best Regards,
Overseas Sales Dept.
Hannah WSC

So, my experiance with Tune is only positive and I can recommand this bass to all players!!

Greetz from Holland and sorry for my bad English.

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