This looks cool Takamine Fretless @ Elderly Inst.

jersey bluesdude · **Posted:** March 28th, 2014, 10:05 am

http://www.elderly.com/vintage/items/56U-198.htm

AzWhoFan · **Joined:** March 14th, 2008, 10:57 am **Posts:** 2865

Never seen or even heard of that model. I wonder what the deal is with the cutout on the back. Kinda ruins it for me at that price point.

jersey bluesdude · **Posted:** March 28th, 2014, 12:46 pm

Im guessing that's a battery compartment. There's a righty on Gbase that says it belongs to Janis Ian (you know that famous bass player

they are asking $4900 for it! http://www.gbase.com/gear/takamine-jani ... erry-stain Description states it has a tube preamp.(?)

Matt R. · **Posted:** March 28th, 2014, 12:55 pm

http://youtu.be/dKEtECsF8To

Addison · **Joined:** June 15th, 2009, 8:03 am **Posts:** 1341

There are way too many other things I would get before I bought that, but sheeeeeit... that thing looks/sounds killer.

Matt R. · **Posted:** March 28th, 2014, 1:44 pm

Addison wrote:

There are way too many other things I would get before I bought that, but sheeeeeit... that thing looks/sounds killer.

Agreed. I still hope to snag one of these someday.

Jeroen · **Posted:** March 29th, 2014, 2:22 am

jersey bluesdude wrote:

Im guessing that's a battery compartment.

The battery compartment appears to be below the built-in tuner in the preamp.
Which really does have a tube in it, by the way!

Maybe the cutout on the back is to easily access a sound post, like on an upright bass? On an upright, when you remove all strings at once, the sound post will fall out of place (it's not fixed) and needs to be repositioned. Maybe the TB-10 has a sound post too. Just guessing though!

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This looks cool Takamine Fretless @ Elderly Inst.

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