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I think I was merely standing there. No instrument. Daryl

Thanks, and I don't look a day over 70. Lol Daryl

What is that instrument that you are playing in that picture Daryl?

Let’s see… Cello: CGDA at 440 pitch or BbFCG at baroque 392 pitch 5-string bass: BEADG Take out the A string: BEDG From there you could get BbFCG That wouldn’t be as good as having the best gauges for each note, but would do for getting an idea how it might sound, and how playable the music is. Tune to BbFCG, but imagine it is CGDA at baroque pitch. It could be done…

Public Service Broadcasting (with The London Contemporary Orchestra) at The Barbican. 1st November, evening show. 3rd row. The current tour is supporting their Last Flight album, with a few older crowd pleasers side loaded in.

Looks like a cool bit of kit. I never would have thought of pairing something like that with double bass!

Cellists manage. Mind you, Bach’s cello suites were not written for the cello as we know it. Most scholars now agree he composed them for the violoncello da spalla, which is like an overgrown viola, played on the shoulder. You’ll find some videos on YouTube showing that.

The board looks amazing.... Aa I'm sure the V4 will be too. 👍

Hold On Tight - ELO

Ian Hunter - All American Alien Boy (1976). Jaco just getting started. Fabulous mix of classic soloing and some tasty minimalist playing from the master.

In an alternative reality in which Fender didn’t exist I suspect most of us would be playing a Yamaha 🙂

There’s something almost Wal-like about that 👍

(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher - Jackie Wilson

ok ...package arrived ...all the strings are surprisingly now standard long scale not xl ...go figure ..not sure what's going on over there but i'm happy now ..i would delete this thread if i could ...maybe admin can do it for me....cheers.

My late wife wanted a Bosendorfer, but I bought her a Yamaha instead, because she loved the specific piano, and at the time the Bosendorfer was maybe 40% of our house price and seven years wait. Or maybe that was the really nice store owner seeing my face when he mentioned the price exaggerating the order time.

They're both fine looking basses, but that 5 I'd love to try. Congrats gents.

In terms of “official” endorsers, yep, there aren’t many. But you do see quite a lot of them out there being played by some reasonably well-known players - another couple who sprang to mind were James LoMenzo (currently with Megadeth) and Tony Kanal (No Doubt). The only endorsed Yamaha player I can think of who moved onto another brand was John Myung - the rest of them have stuck with the brand forever. You’re right about the guitar side of things though - there really aren’t many. But again, the YouTube generation are filling the gaps, people like Matteo Mancuso. The Pacifica was always the single best inexpensive Strat-a-like available, but there’s a lot more competition now. Yamaha make a LOT of instruments and I guess they have to focus on where they do best - for them, that means brass instruments, keyboards and pianos (they obviously have their own range, and they own Bösendorfer - probably the most prestigious and expensive pianos in the world!). Let’s not forget they are also the current owners of Ampeg and Line 6.

i recently bought a couple of labella tape wounds strings 760n online who gave me xl length instead as they didn't have any regular scale lengths in stock. When i asked them if this was ok they just said i have to be "very careful" ?? Before i break open the string set and cut them can anyone tell me if it's possible to do this without the silken end part being totally removed thus allowing the tape covering to unravel ...this all sounds potentially a tad janky to me.

Took a year off in the mid 80’s when my daughter was born, then got offered a job in a resident club band and needed the dosh so back I went. Went pro in the early 90’s and apart from the Covid thing have been busy ever since. I think that year off made me realise how much of me still wanted to play music for a living, so in a way it did me good. I’m supposedly ‘semi- retired’ now, but still doing a fair few gigs, just more locally than before. Can’t see that changing for a good while yet either.

The Black Horse in Whitwick was the first gig in a few weeks and a good job too - we've all had man-flu during the downtime. Luckily I am just about over mine now, but it was pretty grim at the start and then spent ages slowly trailing off. Anyway nothing that a bit of performance adrenaline can't fix. Although I'd created events on Facebook the guitarist/vocalist didn't do any further plugging with a day or two to go like normal, because he wasn't certain we'd be able to play. So it was satisfying that we managed to fill the place on a dark, wet and gloomy Friday night. We played quite a few songs that we don't do often so that made a nice change too. The Stingish bass is becoming a mainstay now - it's just so lovely to play. Boss GT-6B multi-fx into the Big Muff that I'm still playing with (more fuzz, more fuzz!) and thence into the fabulous Rumble v3 500 combo. Some nice compliments too to round off the night. I think we only have one weekend kept free for the rest of the year now - the long run towards NYE has started

😲 I absolutely wasn't suggesting you should do that!!! I just showed that as an example of how someone corrected a build flaw in a through-neck bass, where there wasn't an alternative fix, short of prising off the whole fretboard & replacing it with a thicker one! You have other alternatives available - it occurs to me you could shim the length of the 'through' neck with a series of graduating thin shims, layered like steps, so they add height at the bridge end but not the heel end - I did something similar to a guitar with a fairly long heel, using layers of thin plastic card. If someone else already suggested this, just ignore me. I really should go to bed...