Marleaux 12-String Basses
Roland Kaschube playing his custom Marleaux 12-string bass.
Marleaux Bass Guitars from Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany created this Model M-12 custom 12-string bass in 2015. It was custom built for Roland Kaschube, the chief editor of Germany’s Bass Professor magazine.
The bass incorporates a maple body with 3-piece maple neck and ebony fingerboard, 33” scale with 24 frets. Transparent black finish with actual silver inlaid in the body. Two Delano soap bar pickups with Marleaux 2-band electronics, active / passive. Controls are volume, pan, passive tone, and a double-deck bass / treble pot. Neck is just over 52 mm at the nut, 66 mm at the 12th fret. Custom ETS bridge, which took nearly a full year to develop. The new price of this 12 was 4,800 Euros.
2015 Marleaux custom 12-string bass.
Custom tailpiece.
This Marleaux 12 was displayed at the “Feel The Bass 2015” show in Mannheim, Germany on October 11, 2015.
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