Within 25 years in business, double bass luthier Giorgio Pianzola (Bern/Switzerland) has come across many … mmmh, let’s call it ‘strange’ things. He just has sent me this photo of an interesting tailpiece. “This tailpice doesn’t make sense to me”, Giorgio told me. “This makes has installed hundreds of these tailpiece to local Folk music basists, in order the make the sound ‘softer’. New strings should do a better job for that. This thing is a sound killer, only making unwanted noise und turns the bass into being un-tunable.”