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gapiro

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  1. I'm in huntingdon/peterborough kinda area - I have seen those stands online just wondering if they're big enough to take the base in case
  2. Hi All I, somewhat recently, got a new bag for my double bass (https://www.thomann.de/gb/gewa_bs_25_double_bass_bag_3_4.htm) and its amazing - its even survived a clumsy trumpet player falling on it with no damage However at home, I can't fit the bass in the stand I have with the case on- its a homemade wooden box that allows a base to sit vertically Do any of the stands around let you store a bass in a quite well padded bag easily? (eg the hercules one, or the G4m one) I have cats at home and they attack the bows and quiver etc so don't really want it out of the case when I can (for some reason they don't attack the case....)
  3. I was looking at one just now too - I met some army musicians and they all swore by them but I haven't ever tried
  4. haha, nah was just putting on the cat tree for somewhere easy to photograph and stable
  5. conveniently wedged in a cat tree as couldn't find anywhere else to photo it
  6. Ok i have just fallen out. Having not bought a bass for the best part of a decade.... I just dropped some dollar on a dingwall combustion Will post a pic on monday when it arrives 😂
  7. I mean you’re not a mile wrong … except the pub covers is usually more the same old shite once a month and having 2-4 rehearsals per gig There are a handful of acts, mostly duos , round here that break that mould and do 3 gigs a week sometimes three a day doing festivals and pubs etc and they’re very good but are more tribute duos than pub covers
  8. Pretty much same for me weddings and functions;50% of my gigs musical theatre : 40% concert band and odd random orchestral: 10%
  9. BUT THE INTEREST FREE CREDIT AT ANDERTONS IS TOO TEMPTING (In seriousness, I am just looking for a new 'the one' bass to do everything and would like to get myself something quality. Having had my two current basses since 2011/12 and just feeling like something needs a shakeup
  10. Someone tell me I don’t need a new bass 😂😂😂(drools at dingwalls)
  11. People are weird.
    I just replied to a 'bassist wanted' ad on fb that just said a date and location, message me if interested, with no fee, genre etc listed, and the person replied saying 'blocking you because you're asking too many questions' and blocked me. 
    Like...my interest level depends on the answer to those questions

    1. Lozz196

      Lozz196

      Someone who doesn`t want to answer stuff like that is definitely best avoided, I mean all of that is just common sense stuff, why wouldn`t anyone say what genre they`re playing, crazy, bullet dodged methinks

    2. SpondonBassed

      SpondonBassed

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      'Nuff said.

    3. Sardonicus

      Sardonicus

      I bet their set lists just says SONGS 😆

       

  12. Gig starting tonight - I'm on We Will Rock You in the first ever amateur production in the UK, by special agreement of Queen as the theatre group is opening its own new theatre. Band is up behind the scaffolding poles etc!
  13. Reasonably - per the picture - usually about an inch to 1.5 inches / (3-4cm) from the bottom
  14. the first one went in the middle of a theatre show, when I had to do a quick DB to EB change - put the DB onto the bass bar and it just sank and started tipping over, much to my serious alarm. Second one I was just putting the bass on the bar for a lesson and ping, the leg came off
  15. I love the idea of 'The Bass Bar' but I've now had two fail - both with the same fault - the joints of the support arms just are naff. I have made some repairs to my current one (see below) but just wondering if there are any similar products on the market?
  16. I suspect for wifely bliss, k-k-kitchen is probably the correct answer....
  17. I've had a windfall of £1800 in teh form of rediscovered premium bonds, given as an inheritance when I was a little un I'm debating if I want to put it as a deposit for the bass I've always wanted Or towards the kitchen refurb we need to do....
  18. this is the bassist wanted forum, try the bassist available forum
  19. And if so how my lakland 55-01 has been out of action with a naffed jack and sitting on my music stand in corner of the room went to do some soldering today and fix jack and found a ding in the fingerboard i have no idea how to fix …. Is it something worth fixing ??
  20. Are they new strings to try or are they replacements?
  21. well yes and no my 55-01 is 'natural' or whatever they call natural but has a different pickup and a different preamp to the original The fact is I bought the pair of lakland (laklandi?) that I own , both in 2011. I have a 55-01 (sorry , made a mistake before!) and a lakland owners group special ('LOG Bass') and haven't bought a conventional bass guitar since. (I have bought a fretless and a double bass since mind) because I like them _that much_ So getting the 'best version' of what I like seems like a logical step
  22. Yeah, such a horrible bass, 🤣 Damnit
  23. I’ve probably lusted over it for 5 years. In the colours on the lakland site as below just I got a new job just before Xmas with a circa 50% pay rise …
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