Help me identify this bass.

[Matt Geiger]

Can anyone help me identify this?

[FRANK]

wow very Cool I like it sorry I cant help but heck Id like to know also hope it all works out how dose it sound ?

[Mark Pollock]

No idea, but I suspect it's the mother of all basses. The Larson brothers would look at that thing and say "DAAAAAAAMN, that's big."

[Lee Gendvilas]

Try contacting the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.

[Joshua Levin-Epstein]

That is a bass tambutiza/tamburitca. It is eastern European in origin (Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia). I did a quick google search and found the contemporary instruments that are more guitarish. Some have Fender shaped peg heads. Leo said he based his design on the instruments he saw some Croatian musicians playing.

 

That will look great in your den, next to your Regal bass guitar.

 

Joshua

 

 

 

[Tim Mace]

Although I know nothing about it,my first impression was almost identical to Joshua as it it has a Russian like

adornment thingy and a soundhole akin to a balalaika.

[Paul Hostetter]

Its called a berda, the bass member of the tambura family.