The pickups are heavy on the microphonics, and it's not surprising considering the way they are designed, I don't think even wax potting them is going to help much. I cleaned up the controls today, and adjusted the pickups, set the pole pieces, and oh my god, what a nice rich tone, seems fairly heavy on the fundamental, I actually had to turn the gain on my amp down from where it normally is with my active bass. It was a twofold thing for me, one was reading Ed Friedland's comments on it in bassplayer, the other was Ryan Moore's comment on his found in a Dutch junkshop bass, though I don't think it was an Egmond.ĮF was right about the sound though, it's fat. So if anyone can find a pic with a closeup of the bridge? The pickups on this sound pretty awesome, though they need a bit of work, according to Angela Instruments, they are probably DeArmonds. It's not adjustable, it's not even shaped, it just happened to fit. I too have just shoved a piece of wood in there to act as the saddle bridge for now. I'm wondering if that was original equipment or added. Another user has told me that his has a floating adjustable wooden bridge, but he doesn't have any pictures of it. The one I have obviously had some issues, because there's a couple of splits in the body, which I can repair, but I wanted to know what an original bridge looked like. They were made in Holland, reputedly of wood sometimes so new, that if you planted them in the ground and watered them, they'd start to grow again. Yeah, when you google them you get a lot of Max van Egmond the opera singer and a few hits on Ed Friedland as well, there's an 'Egmond Expert' as well, who is wanting to write a book on them, but his page is really sparse.
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