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Acoustic guitar case? Or something like a Mono posh bag?

Not even heard of the All Blacks? And managed to miss the entire "Johnny Wilkinson wins the world cup" thing?

That's pretty much what I'm looking for. I'm doing big band arrangements of loads of tunes at the moment and that would seem to suit.

I hope so - it will take a while to raise the money! Teenage kids are expensive! I won't buy toys for me on credit.

I'm not normally a sunburst fan, but the tobacco burst with the roasted maple 'board looks lovely. Are they a permanent addition to the line?

I watched last night's game. Was the first game I've watched for maybe 15 years. i thought I'd give it a try. What a bunch of play acting fake injury nobbers. On both sides. Zero respect for the officials as well. "Privileged" to watch it, my giant fat derrière. If FIFA won't sort it then let the sponsors do it - would be very easy. Just put a mic on the ref so the players' comments get broadcast. The sponsors wold be very quick to put pressure on. And what is the point of endless yellow cards? Time for a 10 minute sin bin whenever a yellow is given.

Sounds about right. Alas.

Stupid ones! But I'm still going to start saving.

"Averaging about 8lb" Time to start saving up!

It's still got way more bass stuff than Fractal and Kemper. So I'm not fussed about amp updates. But I'd like some more compressors and synths.

It's such a shame. They were always my first choice but I wouldn't go near them anymore.

I did think about that - after all many upright players do that too, but I haven't got round to it. I've got some GHS Precision Flats on the way from the US so I'll give them a try when they get here.

£38.11 including shipping and the Amazon Import Fees Deposit thingy.

I've been playing this lovely thing a great deal. I've gone through a load of different strings to see what I like on it too. One thing I've really noticed is that when it was just a P the B could be a bit crap with the wrong strings, particularly flats. The B would be flubby and not have the same tone as the other strings. D'addario Pro-Steels sorted that out perfectly but I still wanted to do a Duck Dunn thing for the big band. The new J pickup has cured that flub even with low tension flats (La Bellas). I suppose the J is just sensing the string at a point where string movement is a lot less. It's definitely not the Duck way of getting that tone, but I've got the J at full volume with the tone backed off to about half-way, and then I ease up the P to taste. "Shake a tail feather" now sounds bang on. Summer Concert is on Saturday and I'm looking forward to it!

I've finally ordered some. They appeared cheap on Amazon via their "Global Store" thingy. Looking forward to giving them a try on the PJ-Ray.

Strings Direct, Andertons, Thomann, Amazon have various of their products - guitar strings / bass / uke etc. Still shown on Strings And Things distributor page too. Why do you say they went out of business?

eh? Website is still up, and plenty of places stocking them.

Love the new one. Lighter, smaller, more comfy.

Dread Zeppelin are real. And awesome.

Students thought it was the best tune of the night. Mr and Mrs Silly Billy!

In an old band a guy celebrating his birthday asked if we could do Enter Sandman and he could sing it. It was an end of year student union party so we said yes. 2 of the band didn’t know it so we went through it in our 30 mins break. We got up to do it and the guy started to sing. turned out he only new the chorus and sang that over all of it. It was woeful.

Which courier?

When you buy enhanced insurance it confirms there are restrictions on that service.

At the moment - big band jazz. Loving every minute of it.

I'm surprised that many posters here are surprised. This has been the case for years. The big couriers even stated why several years ago - poorly packed instruments leading to massively increased claims. Shops negotiate their own deals, or use their business insurance to cover any courier based losses. Shops are also less likely to put in a dodgy claim when compared to an ebay deal. There are couriers out there who will insure properly but most of them require a phone call and not just a web form. IIRC ParcelFlight are used by Bass Gear for Foderas and the like, and I think UPS will do full insurance if you get a bespoke quite over the telephone. And for those complaining about them taking the money and then you discovering this.... you know that little "I HAVE READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND AGREE THEM" tick box that you had to tick before the payment was taken.... the details were all in there. You just didn't read it. That is not their fault.