gumby

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Steve - the gumby was a 32 "scale reneck of a 25" supro pocket bass, making it a real blues machine, since the avatar shot I found a supro plastic peghead logo for it on ebay, see pic.

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  1. A kind of drum used by the negroes of the West Indies, made of a piece of a hollow tree, about 6 feet long, over which a skin is stretched. It is carried by one man while another beats it with his open hands. A squad of drunken black vagabonds, singing and playing on gumbies, or African drums. M. Scott.

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  1. West Indian, perhaps orig. African.
 

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