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The financial penalty is far smaller than you breaching the terms of your policy and the insurers seeking reimbursement from you for any outlay. Non-disclosure is always a bad idea.

There's a used Countryman in the classifieds. Get that. Nice instruments. Really needs a string upgrade, but still very good.

https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I solved.

Get a Helix.

Find another £100 and get this

Looks lovely. What an absolute waste of 4 minutes though. Play the effing thing!

I quite like JST, she's very good in such a staid old genre.

I like them! the D string is a bit short, only got 1.5 wraps round the post on my Ray5 but it seems stable. Tone is similar to TI Flats but they are far less floppy. Looking forward to see how they mellow out like the TI Flats.

They have arrived. I'll stick them on this evening.

Food. I'm a BBQ master. Proper low and slow smoking. None of that grilling burgers for 5 mins and calling it a BBQ shite.

On a bass I don’t care. I adapt to very curved or flat easily. on a guitar it depends on the rest of the profile. Old Fender neck needs that curve. But I’m also happy with the 16 inch radius on my Ibanez as it suits the slim profile. and I do think the conical approach is far superior. Easy chord fretting at one end and easy bends without choking at the other. What’s not to like?

Joanne Shaw Taylor, Pink Floyd, and Radiohead will never write a song as awesome as Detroit Rock City.

It’s the whole package that’s important. sometimes it is possible to watch a show and think “I love everything about them except the music” and still have a great time.

I was having a dig around. Your usual strings are 45-105. Fender do the same string in a lighter gauge at 40-100 but if that isn't light enough then you'll have to change brand. The D'addario's I posted are very low tension. But the problem is that many other makers don't publish their tension figures. So you might find that someone else's 35-95 set are lighter than the D'Addarios. That being said - the D'addario 35-95 are not far off the Status-Graphite 30-90. They are much closer than the different gauges suggest. Not many makers do a 30-90 set BUT you could get the highest 4 strings from a 6 string set That would probably be the lightest of all, but that means tuning down a huge amount from the intended tuning - Truss Rod adjustments and probably nut changes are likely. Personally - I'd suggest giving the Status or the D'addarios a try. They are both good strings and really light.

Fabulous body design. Very clever. But even if I was in the market, that headstock makes my teeth itch! (Sorry! I know it's very difficult to find something usable and unique these days)

D'Addario 35-95

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ziQAAOSwfVpYsvlw/s-l1600.jpg There you go

I hope he's paid his selling subs!

That's what I want to hear!!

I'm doing the lessons. Fair to say that the first few etudes are really quite easy. But also that the last ones (In the Beginner / Intermediate pack) are quite difficult. For me anyway. Comparing to my daughter's clarinet studies I would say the early ones easier than Grade 1 Trinity, at Lesson 24 (the last lesson in this pack) are about a Grade 5 level. The first pack really is aimed at learning to read music - every exercise is in C. Pack 2 introduces the sharps and flats and Pack 3 is Scales. Pack 4 is Chord Tones. It's quite odd with everything being in C, but my experience of reading is from Sax and so with that just about nothing is in C! I'm going to try and do 10 or 15 minutes per day just reading as recommended by my daughter's amazing clarinet teacher.

Maybe D'addario - they do a piccolo bass set. Perhaps they will sell them individually. Good strings too - I had them on my Hyperbass.

I wanted a set of flats for my P-Ray. But as the Thomastik JF345 set seems to have gone up in price stupidly I've decided to try the La Bella low tension set. Doesn't seem to be much chat on here about them, so I'll just have to wait and see for when they arrive. fingers crossed that I like them!

I bought the first one. Will get stuck in tomorrow

Anyone tried any of these? When he was still at the Players School I was tempted to go on one of his 1 week intensive tuition courses, but I didn't sort it out in time. The online system seems to be his new approach. I'm quite tempted to give one of the packs a try https://www.jeffberlinmusicgroup.com/bass-lessons/