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I think this is the best place for this... Basically a friend of mine has asked if I will give his son (aged about 8 or 9?) some bass lessons. The kids dad is an accomplished guitarist and has been showing him the basics for the last couple of months but would like someone with more knowledge to help out. The kid has basic music knowledge from doing piano lessons (but I gather not for long) and I've seen him play (He played a song with our church Sunday school on Sunday for Christmas so he is at least somewhere!) I've taught a few people to play bass but never someone less than about 16 so I'm guessing I should probably have a whole different approach...( I vaguely remember my Cello lessons aged about 9) ...any advice appreciated!

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[quote name='The Marlin' post='679859' date='Dec 10 2009, 06:34 AM']I moaned about the active circuit - as enguaging it made little differece to the tone.[/quote] That's interesting I had a 775 for quite a few years...Really liked it. What do you mean by engaging the active circitry? As far as I was away it was an active only instrument (ie. active circuitry could not be disengaged). There was a "boost" switch...which admitedly didn't make much of a difference but as far as I was aware it was never meant to "engage" the active circuitry, it was just a subtle boost? [url="http://www.yamaha.ca/content/guitar/products/electricbasses/RBX775/specifications.jsp"]Yamaha Canada Spec (only country with spec still online)[/url] So does the mod turn this into an active/passive switch?

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