Guild B-30E

Big, Beautiful, Left Handed. Built in 1987 in Rhode Island. The solid spruce top, mahogany sides and back, mahogany neck and ebony board combine for a pleasant deep resonant tone. Got a giant case with it but the tuners barely fit in although they are original. Nice big frets and pin bridge, bone saddles and nut. Stays in tune and intonates perfectly.

I play string basses and electric bass guitars, mostly swing,rock,blues. This is a great instrument for light gigs or when I want no amp and even a string bass is too much, crowded parties, coffee houses etc. I use a Polytone Brute or a GK 400/Bagend 15 but I don't need them for this application. a microphone in front of it is enough really. The bass is great for melodic, beatle type playing, jazz melodies and chording. It can be quite boomy on the blues and rock stuff. I think the most fun is the incredible responsiveness to minute changes in attack. It is very sensitive and i enjoy that.

Well for an 18 year old bass, it's like brand new, not a ripple or a warp. Everything works fine. Beautifully crafted of high quality materials. This one was celebrity owned and I think they made him a good one to begin with and then he rarely played it.

Haven't had it that long but it's super solid so far.

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I have tons of guitars, fiddles, basses, ukuleles, amps, drums and stuff like that. My main basses are a Jazz, an Epiphone Casady and a Kay upright, all left handed. If it were lost, I'd play my guitarron more I guess, unless I found another left handed one(I don't know if there are any others).I love it's playability, responsiveness,tone and physical beauty. I haven't liked any other acoustic guitar basses until this one.

Acoustic-electric bass guitar, I think it's a mid- to late ?80s model, made in Rhode Island, 20 frets (neck joins body at 14th fret), active electronics (battery inside), 2 controls, 1 volume, 1 concentric bass & treble. BIG body, unwieldy to play and hard to carry (case is about 8 inches thick)?but that's the price for full bass tone from an acoustic.

Absolutely awesome. Full, deep, almost like an upright but much easier to play. I've played several acoustic bass guitars, and this has by far the richest tone. Basically one sound, but it's an acoustic, do you expect to slap on it?
I'm mainly a rock'n'roll player, but use this for acoustic jams, late-night practice in NYC apartment, home recording for blues, jazz, slow country-gospel tunes, spacy-hypnotic stuff. (I use flatwounds.) Can be a little thin recording, you have to know how to tweak it. But if I could give this an 11, I would.

No problems. Very playable, stays in tune, tuning gears turn very smoothly.

I've only used it on a couple shows, but considering that I'd be using it for acoustic gigs, not hammering punk on it, seems solid?especially compared to the Kramer Ferrington I used to have, where the bridge kept popping off & tearing wood with it.

Bought it used, so no contact. I think the factory was a union shop then, so at least the workers who made it probably got treated right, not like in some foreign sweatshop.

I've been playing bass for 32 years, also own a P-Bass, a Gibson EB0, a Subway Guitars "mariachi bass" acoustic-electric, and a DeArmond 5-string. This one's great. I don't know if it's better than a Martin or a Tacoma, but I love it. Only problem is that it's really unwieldy, but it's a BASS, not an acoustic guitar with a bass neck stuck on?you want low tones, you gotta move a lot of air.
If it were stolen or lost, I'd be really depressed.