{"id":269,"date":"2022-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?post_type=bass&p=269"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:46:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:46:43","slug":"bass-of-the-week-tui-instruments-mammoth-slayer","status":"publish","type":"bass","link":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?bass=bass-of-the-week-tui-instruments-mammoth-slayer","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: T\u00fci Instruments Mammoth Slayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TuiThis week we\u2019re checking out a brand new ancient bass by T\u00fci Instruments. Gert Simso shared his latest creation with us, which he calls the Mammothslayer. <\/p>\n

\u201c[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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe pickup is a random MusicMan-style one I bought from the internet. It doesn\u2019t even have a company name,\u201d he explains. \u201cIt cost 30 Euro and it sounds like a boutique one \u2013 all the high end without bleeding ears and all the low end with no mud. And the mids in balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This week we\u2019re checking out a brand new ancient bass by T\u00fci Instruments. Gert Simso shared his latest creation with us, which he calls the Mammothslayer. \u201c[My Friend] got me bog oak as a present,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1256,"template":"","meta":[],"builder":[],"class_list":["post-269","bass","type-bass","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/bass"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"builder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbuilder&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}