Dropped by a Guitar Show at the Sharonville Convention Center here in Cincy last Sunday. Met up with one of my sons and his buddy who was looking for an acoustic. Happened to see this guild on one exhibitor's table (most of his stuff was WAY overpriced, as was this Guild Bass with the broken string 
). Snapped a picture of it as I thought someone here at LTG might be interested in seeing it.
Checked it out on line when I got home and came up with this info:
"The Ashbory bass is a solid body fretless bass guitar designed by Alun Ashworth-Jones and Nigel Thornbory. It is 18 inches long, almost half the size of a standard bass guitar. When amplified, the Ashbory reproduces the low, resonant bass tone of a plucked double bass.
The Ashbory was designed by folk musician Al Jones and luthier Nigel Thornbory. According to Thornbory, "Al discovered that a rubber band stretched over one of his guitar transducers produced an impressive bass note when plucked."
The Ashbory was produced by the Guild Guitar Company from 1986 until 1988. This version used a one-piece poplar body and neck.
The Ashbory uses silicone rubber strings and an acoustic piezo-transducer pickup fitted to the bridge to create the instrument's tone."
Wasn't much of a show (... didn't see any Guilds other than the Ashbory bass + one Madeira acoustic), but there was a young luthier from right across the River in N. Kentucky who had a table. His name is Ike Wilhelm, and he is building some amazing acoustic guitars. He is a Cincinnati Conservatory of Music grad in classical guitar, as is my sons friend, and I think he found a customer in my son's buddy who immediately made an appointment to visit his shop after playing some of the acoustics he had at the show.
). Snapped a picture of it as I thought someone here at LTG might be interested in seeing it.Checked it out on line when I got home and came up with this info:
"The Ashbory bass is a solid body fretless bass guitar designed by Alun Ashworth-Jones and Nigel Thornbory. It is 18 inches long, almost half the size of a standard bass guitar. When amplified, the Ashbory reproduces the low, resonant bass tone of a plucked double bass.
The Ashbory was designed by folk musician Al Jones and luthier Nigel Thornbory. According to Thornbory, "Al discovered that a rubber band stretched over one of his guitar transducers produced an impressive bass note when plucked."
The Ashbory was produced by the Guild Guitar Company from 1986 until 1988. This version used a one-piece poplar body and neck.
The Ashbory uses silicone rubber strings and an acoustic piezo-transducer pickup fitted to the bridge to create the instrument's tone."
Wasn't much of a show (... didn't see any Guilds other than the Ashbory bass + one Madeira acoustic), but there was a young luthier from right across the River in N. Kentucky who had a table. His name is Ike Wilhelm, and he is building some amazing acoustic guitars. He is a Cincinnati Conservatory of Music grad in classical guitar, as is my sons friend, and I think he found a customer in my son's buddy who immediately made an appointment to visit his shop after playing some of the acoustics he had at the show.
