This week we’re checking out a brand new ancient bass by Tüi Instruments. Gert Simso shared his latest creation with us, which he calls the Mammothslayer.
“[My Friend] got me bog oak as a present, so it felt only right to make him a bass from the best piece. He wanted something raw. Something, when played, makes that mammoth frozen in a glacier shiver in fear. And something we can use to make woolly, slow and heavy music together.”
The spear-shaped body is made from bog oak while the lower bout features a deer horn for a leg rest. Its neck also has bog oak laminated with ebony and maple. The Mammothslayer has just three strings, tuned C-D-C, and an elongated 35.5-inch scale. For electronics, Simso dug up a rare find.
“The pickup is a random MusicMan-style one I bought from the internet. It doesn’t even have a company name,” he explains. “It cost 30 Euro and it sounds like a boutique one – all the high end without bleeding ears and all the low end with no mud. And the mids in balance.”
