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Not sure about the voice, TBH.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1434475405' post='2800002'] You see lots of free or ridiculously cheap pianos on Preloved/Freeloved. Five miutes searching found these: [url="http://www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/113264386/free-piano.html"]http://www.preloved....free-piano.html[/url] [url="http://www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/113257114/untuned-piano.html"]http://www.preloved....uned-piano.html[/url] [url="http://www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/113241740/bluthhner-upright-piano.html"]http://www.preloved....ight-piano.html[/url] [url="http://www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/113241553/john-broadwood-and-sons-upright-piano.html"]http://www.preloved....ight-piano.html[/url] [url="http://www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/113193789/free-to-collector-upright-piano.html"]http://www.preloved....ight-piano.html[/url] [url="http://www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/113224025/piano.html"]http://www.preloved....4025/piano.html[/url] I'm surprised that somebody hasn't found a use for the wood - bass bodies?? - if nothing else. [/quote] Hm. Might be possible to build a nice bass rack in the carcass of a dead piano... I think you could probably fit 8 or 10 basses in there.

I have a Kramer The Duke, so I have just the faintest inkling of what the sound is based on. (I recognise that bizarre through-bridge stringing arrangement, as well...) That's got to be a monster

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1436184911' post='2815667'] Yes the nut is quiet narrow [/quote] It wasn't a criticism - I was just a bit surprised by it. It's a looker, for sure.

This seems to be a rare beast. Seller is a BC member, if the name is anything to go by. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-BJ5B-Bass-Guitar-Terry-The-Blue-Jeans-5-String-SBV-Model-/191622594243?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2c9d98bec3 Also, that's a really, really narrow nut on a fiver...

I don't know how rare these actually are, but it's the first I've seen advertised. Not a clue if that's a sensible price, either. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KRAMER-Aluhals-8-String-Bass-SELTEN-inkl-MINOTAUR-Ledergurt-inkl-Case-VINTAGE-/221817924279?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_77&hash=item33a560eab7

I'm interested in the pickup combo, but oh, the colours... Tort just does not go with that body, IMO. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-SPEAR-FLEXTOOL-BASS-GUITAR-WITH-3-PICKUPS-IN-JAMAICA-GREEN-SUNBURST-WOW-/111711340499?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item1a0283c7d3

What I can remember by counting my feedback thread: 33+.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1436049530' post='2814638'] My preferred blue would be sonic blue as on this 1956 Cadillac Coupe ... [/quote] Now [u]that's[/u] a blue I could grow to love on a bass.

Westone Spectrum GT, just down the road from me. £110. Hmm. [url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/rare-70-s-westone-spectrum-gt-candy-red/1123456297"]http://www.gumtree.c...-red/1123456297[/url]

And, lurching completely off topic, this is the [u]only[/u] tolerable colour for one of these... [url="http://www.mygear.com/img/item_pictures/large/30638.jpg"]http://www.mygear.co...large/30638.jpg[/url]

I have a Peavey Foundation which is not far from that colour. Pinker, less brown. This is pretty bad, IMO: [url="https://www.lasvegasguitarworks.com/technical-articles/images/burst-guitars/jet-caribbean-burst.jpg"]https://www.lasvegas...bbean-burst.jpg[/url] And this is worse: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DEAN-Custom-Zone-4-string-BASS-guitar-in-Florescent-Pink-w-LIGHT-HARD-CASE-/141219661594?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20e159071a

[quote name='cytania' timestamp='1435993226' post='2814169'] Someone really wanted a double bass feel with the big radius and the extended high frets. [/quote] I reckon that's a good call

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1435995508' post='2814188'] Have you ever played a Longhorn? Very comfortable! And I think they look amazing FWIW. [/quote] I want a blueburst one. And I don't like blue basses...

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1436004074' post='2814265'] I recently fessed up to owning six basses, althought there is still one undeclared fretless bass that will need to be accounted for as part of some highly complex multinational trade/sale deal involving travel to foreign parts like Wigan and maybe as far as Yorkshire. [/quote] Faking End User Certificates is difficult and highly illegal, you know... I have far too many basses. And most of them are on the cheap side, so I feel [u]mrtcat[/u]'s pain.

I do wonder whether this is someone's attempt to make a usable bass out of an accident victim. I also wonder why they didn't look at the result and hide it in shame.

Best wishes to Joni...

Sad day

Nice

[quote name='JoeEvans' timestamp='1435339629' post='2807934'] Pure beeswax is the best thing I've tried. You can hold it in your hand for a while and it goes soft enough to mould, but then it sets nice and hard and sticks well. And you can just polish out the smears. [/quote] That's an excellent idea. Thanks

Another Vox Standard. The one I've got has been partially stripped, weighs a ton and has a treetrunk for a neck, but I love it dearly and will never part with it. But I'd like one to put a J-width fretless neck on. Also, I keep seeing a pale blue/maple Ibanez GSR250 on eBay. Pretty

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1435428612' post='2808746'] Just thought I'd bung this up, best thing I've seen on this years Glastonbury coverage so far (and not just because of the super-cute break dancing kid) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eayeI_0yAKI[/media] [/quote] That was cool