Hi friends and family,
I picked this baby up at Huber-Breese Studios in Fraser, Michigan on Monday. It took me nearly a week to get around to posting the birth of this new baby (it’s not a Giraffe although it has a long neck) because I’ve been very busy playing it! This bass is called an Electric Upright Bass or EUB. It’s made by NS Design and is called the WAV5 Electric Upright Bass. It has the same scale and neck radius as a full size 3/4 Upright Bass so it plays very similar. You can pluck it or bow it. The bass is at home playing be-bop, rockabilly or orchestral and everything in between. It’s pretty easy to use a bow as in orchestral music and bowing is a good way to practice intonation.
This bass is a five-string. The standard bass has four strings. I really like having the extra string on my electric basses so I figure the extra string should come in handy on the EUB although, it makes it a little more difficult to bow. I may change the string configuration from having an extra low ‘B’ string to an extra high ‘C’ string. I will be able to play in the realm of a Cello, then. That might be very fun as I love the sound of a Cello.
So here are some pictures. The color is called Dark Amber. I really like it. The body is made of Rock Maple with a Flame Maple veneer on the body and head. I think it’s beautiful. What do you think? You can post comments after any post on this web site and I appreciate all comments.
I have to make special mention of my wife, Sue. If it wasn’t for her encouragement of my pursuit of musical excellence, I wouldn’t even think a bass like this possible to own and play . . .
Also, please send good thoughts to my cousin, John Tschirhart who I’m very close to. John is a bass player, also. Although, he actually studied with one of the best upright bass teachers in Detroit. John had surgery on his left (fingerboard) pinky finger over a month ago. The doctor took the bandage/splint off recently only to find a tendon had come loose making his finger useless for playing bass. They are doing some procedure to try to rectify the problem but, John won’t be able to play for at least three months missing all that income and music. Please send positive thoughts down to Clearwater, FLA (up for you, Uncle Paul) and direct them to John Tschirhart’s left pinky finger. Thanks in advance, from John’s pinky . . .
Thanks for reading and I hope I didn’t get too technical for non-musicians. It never hurts to learn some new bit of trivia, I believe,
David 
Tschirhart
