Bass of the Week: Tüi Instruments Mammoth Slayer
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.”
Tüi Instruments Mammothslayer Bass Specs:
| Scale: | 35.5″ |
| Body: | Bog Oak with Deer Horn Leg Rest |
| Neck: | Bog Oak, Ebony, and Maple |
| Fingerboard: | Bog Oak |
| Frets: | 22 Stainless Steel with Zero Fret |
| Pickup: | Unknown MM-style Blade Pickup in Custom Bog Oak Housing |
| Tuners: | Schaller Lightweight M4S |
| Bridge: | Custom Tüi Pin Bass Bridge |
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I love it! Gert does his own thing and stays creative.
But why?
Why 3 string, with CDC tuning?
That makes no sense, remember bass is tuned in 4th’s.