#001 | Bass-Tone

One night in the middle of a summer I have dreamt of the most foolish word play:

As a gimmick cane collector; I had a cane with a head of a dog; Cane means “Dog” in Italian, thus a Cane cane. Then Cane means a walking stick or simply “Bastone” in Italian as well as “Baston” in my native tongue Turkish. Thus also a cane Cane. It’s the sound I loved when I say it The “tone” of it, Bas-Tone... Bass-Tone! I could totally hide a bass in this!

Item #001 was a steel walking cane with a steel cast canine head handle which had a blade inside.

It has a total length of 90cm and its body forms from a conical extrusion.

Front side of #001 is machined then plate welded flat, thus becoming fretless keyboard for it’s secondary function.

Item #001 is meant to be played upside-down using the cane handle as a hook strap that rests on users pocket.

All hardware in #001 is either heavily modified or made from scratch.

End: #001’s chassis taper towards its end; Inside its rubber sole, there is an 1/4” jack that can be plugged into an amplifier.

Middle: The middle of #001 is reserved for a single pole, single coil pickup and it’s subsequent fretless surface and a black nylon wrapped bass string. These choices greatly reduce the unnecessary thickness in the profile, reduce buzzing by eliminating metal to metal contact and makes the cane almost indistinguishable from a regular model

Top: The handle has multiple functions: One of which is acting as a strap by hooking onto the user’s pocket as this instrument is played upside down; The second of which is to detaching from body to act on the very low profile tuning peg; Third and lastly, It provies a larger point of entry for cable management.

Inside it’s chase, #001 consists 4 crucial components, staring from bottom:

-Tubular 1/4” Jack

-Embedded Custom made Single Pole & Single Coil Pickup

-Custom Tuning Peg

-Detachable Cane Handle as the Tuning Key