{"id":7765,"date":"2015-09-09T11:01:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T16:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=7765"},"modified":"2017-04-28T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T21:14:12","slug":"bass-of-the-week-j-goldsmith-pizzicato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-j-goldsmith-pizzicato.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] J. Goldsmith Pizzicato"},"content":{"rendered":"

See the business listing for this bass builder here<\/a><\/p>\n

This week’s feature bass is a fretless with a Lebanese Cedar body. Cool!<\/p>\n

Builder Josiah Goldsmith writes:<\/p>\n

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I was inspired to build this bass for a number of reasons: <\/p>\n

1) I’m about to start my second year of A-levels, so I needed a project to make. <\/p>\n

2) I’m a double bassist and a bass guitarist, but I needed a decent set-up for bass guitar. <\/p>\n

3) I love building stuff! I figured I should get a head start on building this for next year’s A-level course, but I ended up finishing during summer break, before the college year officially started! (Oops, looks like I need to find myself another project. Matching guitar?). <\/p>\n

The bass is made of a Lebanese Cedar body (salvaged from work; it came down during the 1987 Great Storm here in East Sussex) with an Indian Rosewood top, three-piece Rock-Maple neck and Macassar Ebony fingerboard. It features a single soapbar in the bridge position, a single volume knob and a matching rosewood pick-guard. <\/p>\n

I designed the bass as a double bassist, looking for a bass guitar that I’d feel instantly comfortable with. There are no fingerboard inlays below the twelfth fret, no fiddly electronics and the right hand sits directly over the fingerboard, which feels instantly familiar to anyone who’s played an upright before. That’s actually where the name came from: Pizzicato. This isn’t a bass for slap; it isn’t a bass for clanky, grungey sounds; it’s a bass tailor-fit to me and my playing style. Actually, I guess that’s another reason for building this bass in the first place: it’s an instrument that can’t be bought anywhere else. I think that’s as good a reason as any for building it. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Well done, Josiah!<\/p>\n

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