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Basses. Chris built any bass you could imagine – from basic electrics to archtop jazz sixstrings to fancy 9-stings to acoustics to electric uprights and anything in between.
Chris Larkin built a wide range of electric basses. Reacter basses from the late 1980ies on, Singlecut basses from the 2000s and finally the Syra range – named after his lovely wife – during the 2010s.
Hand made in Ireland in the 90's by Luthier Chris Larkin (RIP) The Blen has featured on many contemporary folk albums over the past 20 years or more. A beautiful warm sound a cross between and upright double bass and a fretless bass.
May 26, 2010 · I thought I was lucky just having one Larkin in my bass collection! Anyway, here's a few pics of my 1987/88 fretless Reacter 4B being played by Sting. Y'know, cos that's what happens everyday in my life!
This is a unique bass completely hadmade by the late great Irish luthier Chris Larkin who also was a personal friend of us for years. Model is ASAP-DBass 5 string. It has a 300 year old Irish Oak top, sycamore and cedar body, neck is a 9 piece laminate of hard maple, flamed maple and walnut stringers with carbon fibre rods either side of the ...
Chris Larkin Syra PB bass built by the master himself to custom order with unusual pickup layout and a stunning color -"The Green Goddess".
Custom Hand Made in Ireland by Chris Larkin for Ken Wittman. Serial number 010504, Made May 4, 2001. Part of a collection. See pictures for all the details. Has a Wittman ProTuner installed at the 24 fret dot markers. 35" Scale.
A fretless, singlecut, 35" scale, through neck bass with Chris Larkin/ Kent Armstrong magnetic pickups and an RMC piezo in the ebony bridge. The carving up the neck makes access to the complete fingerboard effortless.
Hand made 4, 5, and 6 string EUBs built with all the essential dimensions mirroring those of a 3/4 double bass to make crossover from acoustic to electric as painless as possible. Now also available in 1/2 scale model - the MiniBlen - and MicroBlen (35" scale for seated playing) see pictures below.
Chris Larkin ASAPB5 5-string acoustic bass built by the master himself in 2014 and now owned by Claudio Berla.
