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I try to practice at least once every five years, even if I don't need it.

Having owned two Rickenbacker basses in the past I can confidently state that the little sticker is by far the highest quality part of the instrument & is the only thing that stops them falling apart completely.

When I was teaching full time in Gloucestershire/Wiltshire (80 hours per week) I literally had no time to do any personal practice, but I was playing all the time in people's lessons. Useful for keeping your skills up! Now I'm semi retired, I'm off and at home for five days a week, so I have been literally been playing my Basses (and Cello, DB, Violin, etc) at every opportunity. It reminds me of when I was playing at the peak of my ability at about 22 years old when I was principal DB in the Britten Pears Orchestra - we were all that good because we were playing for up to 15 hours a day! Practice doesn't make perfect - but it does make significantly better! 🤔

It’s a sleeping guitarist who hasn’t been sheared yet this week …shhh! You’ll wake him and we’ll be “treated” to endless blues rambling 🤨 best let sleeping trogs lie 🤫

Bloody hell. One acoustic for each chord.

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Yes, he stated it was like a banana and couldn't be adjusted. I've lowered the action and it's really quite a lovely neck really. "Warehouse find", I'm assuming, is stock the seller didn't know he had. Its a music company that I bought it from. That's Jam, my Ginger Tom. He's constantly getting in the way when it comes to photos. He's also a nightmare when I change strings as he loves to chase them.

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King For A Day - XTC

Not particularly, but as a fact it has a very good.. well, its currently an F# but it was good when it was a B! But I would say, as above, the best B of all was the NS bass B, with a bow.

As above ^ The thing is that the crossover does two things, it shares the bass and treble frequencies between the woofer and tweeter and it matches the output so that they are equal in volume. The horn may be much louder than the single speaker or even quieter. You'll need to transfer the crossover as well because passing bass through the horn will destroy it! Having said that crossover design in bass speakers is pretty crudely done for the most and is often only one or two components to protect the tweeter, if so they are easy to hack. Post a photograph of the crossover and we can advise Let us know which 15" Celestion you have and we can see if your cab will do the job for you.

That's very nice. I have a few questions. Did the seller tell you what they thought was wrong with the neck? What's a "warehouse find"? It's not a term I'm familiar with. What's the brown furry thing next to the bass?

It falls under the same argument as artwork, where it isn’t legally clear whether someone feeding AI your copyrighted work for it to regurgitate into something else is an infringement of copyright or becomes their work. It’s harder still because thats what humans do!

Master Race Rock - The Dictators

Yeah, the two holes on top of the saddle. One sixteenth A/F (imperial) is the size of the allen key that you require.

Though waiting for @prowla to rationalise a few unrationialisable things may need a bit longer 😝

Ahhh! My old Overwater Progress 3, seven stringer. Memories! 👍😊

Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears

Near is better than nothing! We did have a stupidly long sofa some years ago that got 'some' of them on... Half of these have been traded for other things since the below photos, but at least they're 'on' a sofa!

This chap shows how he uses AI to his advantage and in fact, how it can be useful. The video is forty minutes long, and personally I don't like his musical examples, but that's not really the point.

Ah, the London toilet circuit. I used to play at a boozer in Tooting where the route to the toilet was through the band to a door at the back of area where the band played. There would be a constant procession of people stumbling between the musicians to relieve themselves (cue announcements over the PA of "Hope you can hear us in there, We can certainly hear you"), Happy days.

Thanks for the replies. It does appear there is something wrong with my one then as from what's being described, I'm sure I would be able to hear the difference if it was working properly. I'll have a look at the switch wiring today to see if there's anything obviously wrong and go from there.

Here is the finished article complete with a varitone switch I snagged at bloodstone guitar works, www.bloodstoneguitarworks.com Dave the seller did an excellent job guiding me through how to install it and for £20 well happy with his switch. The Artec is a lovely little pickup too, sounds proper nice 👍