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The modern travelers guide to the wild and wonderful world of americas tourist attractions, and kens guide to the bible, and more on. Bass club chicago has one of its oldest relationships with ken smith basses. If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. Welcome to the kens corner bass forums sponsored by ksb. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Smith played edgar scoville in the second season of the abc sciencefiction series the invaders 19671968 3 and was a host for the cbs anthology series philip morris playhouse 19531954.
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Fodera is an american manufacturer of electric bass guitars in brooklyn, new york. Smith bass design and its history the online book in the making welcome to. Also, ken smiths achievement includes being an awesome studio and performing bassist. Ken smiths most popular book is handbook of visual communication. He attended leeds university and studied with geoffrey hill, with fellow. For over 20 years other custom builders and individuals have purchased these parts for building and modification of their own instruments. Then he landed a job with stuart spector, working with ned steinberger and ken smith, all of whom are mentioned in this top ten boutique basses list. Nov 25, 20 dimitris moutafis have fun and practising slap bass groove with a ken smith bass duration. Welcome to the ken s corner bass forums sponsored by ksb.
Building the worlds greatest 100% handmade basses since 1978 multistring electric bass pioneer ken smith has developed or introduced many of the innovations used on todays basses which are now industry standards. Its a great time to upgrade your home music studio gear with the largest selection at. The company also manufactures a limited number of electric guitars each year. And, as most of our sellers offer free shipping we think youll agree that youre getting this ken smith bass at one of the best prices online.