Author  Message Kevin Posted: 12/16/2006 at 9:36 PM    Post subject: Aluminum upright bass http://cgi.ebay.com/Alumi.....16222QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Check it out. I have never seen or heard of one of these. Pretty cool. blackmarker Posted: 12/16/2006 at 10:38 PM    Post subject: Interesting piece of history here. I never knew (or would have thought) ALCOA made instruments. Kevin Posted: 12/16/2006 at 11:09 PM    Post subject: I never though much of ALCOA making anything but billet/foil aluminum either, but they make tons of stuff. Heres a strange one, if you look under Powerade bottles lids they make the rubber inserts. upsilonking Posted: 12/24/2006 at 01:58 AM    Post subject: a friend of mine had one of these, but he paid something like $300 for it, it was dented a bit but sounded really good and clear, definitely not worth $8000 though and i really doubt that only 500 existed, because i've seen 3 myself and I'm never in the market for one.