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Thank you, Stacey-I was pretty sure that I was in the clear, but kept re-reading the post, to see if the end of one word…and the start of another…added up to anything crass.
Anyway, sorry that those links just showed up as, well…links. It’s a ton and a half of a guibass, but both necks are eminently playable, the bass neck tending towards a short-scale (although I’ve not measured it), presumably for the sake of symmetricality. There’s no particular sense of headstock-heaviness, although the necessity of wearing it high, so you can reach the 6 properly, would probably help.There’s a three-position switch for 6/BOTH/4, and just one mono output. I’m pretty sure the skull volume knob is not original.
I’ll go and look again at the info earlier in the thread, about dating the thing. Funnily enough, there’s a serial number for each neck…and they’re not consecutive.
You guys are an absolute goldmine-anybody else have anything to contribute?
Hello people, have been reading previous replies with great interest, and thought I might add my two-penny-worth…
Acquired about 8 years ago, from Blue Audio on Upper Street, Islington-is this ungainly beast. A CMI twin-neck! (Trumpets Blast)
Tell me what you think/know/reckon…
I have more pics, if anyone would like to see them…just thought I’d refrain from taking up a whole page on my first outing!
Small backstory to this guitar…The guy in the store mentioned that he believed it to have been the property of comedian/musician Bill Bailey. About 6 weeks later, I happened to be working at the taping of a show for BBC Scotland, where said Mr. Bailey was appearing as a guest.
I took the opportunity to sidle up to him between takes, and enquire as to whether he had indeed owned this beast. Having established that it had once been his (the dried-out remains of a gaffa ‘strap-lock’ are his legacy), I went on to ask him what use he’d made of it.
Turns out that the intro to ‘Peaches’ is about the only musical gag he could wring out of it….
