{"id":569,"date":"2016-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?post_type=bass&p=569"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:46:54","slug":"bass-of-the-week-ledbelli-basses-6-string-noah-bass","status":"publish","type":"bass","link":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?bass=bass-of-the-week-ledbelli-basses-6-string-noah-bass","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: LedBelli Basses 6-String Noah Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Humans of New York<\/a>\u2019s phenomenal Facebook page often catches my attention with intimate photos and insightful stories, but this portrait stopped me in my tracks:<\/p>\n

\"Kayhan<\/p>\n

The bassist\u2019s spirit and determination also called to LedBelli Basses luthier Cleve Johnson. \u201cIn January of 2015 I was surfing the Humans of New York website and came across the photo,\u201d he said. \u201cI was very intrigued when I saw the photo of this random busker playing bass in the subway station in New York City and I immediately decided that I wanted to build him a bass guitar, for free. I then went on Facebook and set out to discover who he was. After a few days, through some intermediaries, I had a name: Kayhan Baratali<\/strong>. I was eventually able to connect with him via Facebook and we developed a friendship. I explained that I wanted to build him a bass and together we hammered out the details of what he would like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our bass of the week is the culmination of that collaboration. The left-handed, six-string bass is LedBelli\u2019s Noah model built with an ash body and curly maple top for a blond theme. Its seven-piece neck is made from quartersawn maple and purpleheart, all of which is topped with a cocobolo fingerboard.<\/p>\n

The bass is loaded with a pair of Honey Badger single-coil pickups matched to a Nordstrand 3b-5a preamp. Other features include a Hipshot \u201cA\u201d style bridge, Gotoh tuners, and mother of pearl dot inlays.<\/p>\n

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For more information, check out the LedBelli Basses website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Humans of New York\u2019s phenomenal Facebook page often catches my attention with intimate photos and insightful stories, but this portrait stopped me in my tracks: The bassist\u2019s spirit and determination also called to LedBelli Basses\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1872,"template":"","meta":[],"builder":[],"class_list":["post-569","bass","type-bass","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass\/569","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\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"builder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbuilder&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}