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tritone
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Joined: Sat Dec 29, 2007 2:58 am Posts: 204
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Boxberger loves ebay
Our favorite boy Frank has 11 simultaneous stick auctions on ebay right now.That's one hell of a firesale. He must be getting divorced.
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Sun Nov 16, 2008 2:13 am |
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Try-Tone
Joined: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:06 am Posts: 8
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Re: Boxberger loves ebay
No I'm not. Er No you're not! So there.
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Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:18 am |
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dubyasee
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Joined: Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:25 am Posts: 950 Location: Tucson, Arizona, USA
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Re: Boxberger loves ebay
hmmm... I wonder if this thread will develop into a trying tone, food fignt?
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Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:41 am |
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MichNS
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Joined: Sat Dec 22, 2007 4:39 am Posts: 1339 Location: Northern Lower Peninsula, Michigan
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What's this thing?
Did you guys see this tapping instrument he's selling for $880? http://cgi.ebay.com/Custom-Tapping-Inst ... 240%3A1318Check out the pic that shows the pickups, those are some massive holes carved out in the body for them. Is this instrument actually made by some luthier, or is it someone's homemade project? Plus, it's a ten string instrument, I count a total of eight polepieces for both pickups. Something just doesn't look right to me with that instrument.
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Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:37 pm |
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adde65
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Joined: Sat Dec 22, 2007 4:10 pm Posts: 990 Location: Adelaide, South Australia
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Re: Boxberger loves ebay
MichNS wrote: Did you guys see this tapping instrument he's selling for $880? http://cgi.ebay.com/Custom-Tapping-Inst ... 240%3A1318Check out the pic that shows the pickups, those are some massive holes carved out in the body for them. Is this instrument actually made by some luthier, or is it someone's homemade project? Plus, it's a ten string instrument, I count a total of eight polepieces for both pickups. Something just doesn't look right to me with that instrument. If you apply the same markups that he puts on his used Sticks, that homemade instrument should retail for about $550. Cheers, Andy
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Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:23 pm |
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greg
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Joined: Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:07 pm Posts: 7088 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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Re: pictures don't match descriptions
The photos for two of the current instruments listed are the same: 110312590117 and 110312590999 if you look at picture # 3 of 7 on both of these, you will see that they are the same photo, and I think neither of these instrument serial numbers listed (#1808 and #1720) is the one shown in the photo, which looks like 5273 (5273 is another one listed by the seller, but with a different set of photos, of a 34" scale SB8 of much earlier vintage). Attachment: ebay110312590999.jpg Attachment: ebay110312590117.jpg Attachment: ebay110312567725.jpg I didn't bother to check any of the others to see if the pictures were actually of the instrument offered. Just thought I'd pass these along...
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Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:21 pm |
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adde65
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Joined: Sat Dec 22, 2007 4:10 pm Posts: 990 Location: Adelaide, South Australia
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Re: pictures don't match descriptions
greg wrote: The photos for two of the current instruments listed are the same:
110312590117 and 110312590999
if you look at picture # 3 of 7 on both of these, you will see that they are the same photo, and I think neither of these instrument serial numbers listed (#1808 and #1720) is the one shown in the photo, which looks like 5273 (5273 is another one listed by the seller, but with a different set of photos, of a 34" scale SB8 of much earlier vintage). .. It must get confusing having that many Sticks around! Cheers, Andy
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Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:52 am |
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tritone
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Joined: Sat Dec 29, 2007 2:58 am Posts: 204
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Re: Boxberger loves ebay
Apparently he made himself a record that he's pawning on youtube. Funny stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUI4jznbDBYTritone
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Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:33 am |
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Brett Bottomley
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Joined: Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:01 am Posts: 1757 Location: North Haven, Connecticut USA
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Re: Boxberger loves ebay
Tritone if the soundbites on the video are from his new disc I'd say give him a break. He has obviously put a lot of work into the project and I for one will reserve judgement until I hear the disc.
btw Tritone when are we going to hear your music?
Brett
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Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:58 am |
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JRJ
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Re: Boxberger loves ebay
I tend to agree with Bret on this; Tri shouldn't throw stones from a glass house even if he always keeps the shades down. But Frank is an interesting character indeed. Not only does he have a large Stick collection but a huge selection of Videos as well ; over one hundred. It's a chronicle of his musical progress. Some of those videos reveal a musical naïvety but I would chalk that up to courage more than anything else. I have watched a lot of the videos not being so brave myself and every so often there is a leap of skill and musical style. There is one Video though where Frank gets all his Sticks out in the desert and gives us a tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZaWks0l5-M and to me any way what is obvious about Frank is that he loves these things as much as any of us. So OK give him a break right? , but why so many? Is he just a collector? It could be cars or motorcycles or Chinese tea pots and no one would lift an eyelash on this forum but I think there is a more interesting reason that goes beyond Stick GAS. The "muses" call like the sirens song and pull energy through us; yes to create but originally they call us to find out, to explore. Frank wants to know; is it a ten or a twelve, a NS or Warr? He is creative and restless and from the sound of his album excerpt he may have stepped into a new domain of creative collaboration that suits him well. ^j^ . ~
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