No Endorsements
Alembic have always followed a strict no endorsement policy: artists have always had to pay for their instruments. According to Susan Wickersham, co-founder and CEO: "the most successful artists can afford to pay for their instruments – but if we gave them endorsement deals the cost of those instruments would have to be recovered from customers who are far less able to afford it".
Alembic has made two exceptions to this rule. Stanley Clarke was given a specially inlaid instrument to celebrate 30 years of working together. Mark King, in 1986, received two 34" scale Series 2 basses and then ordered two more in identical woods with 32" scale.
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