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Even though Townshend was never even tried for any offence? Rather a case of double standards, isn't it?

I don't see a problem with practicing once a week if there's a purpose to it. Once up and gigging, if you're gigging reasonably frequently and varying the set then you should only need to rehearse to bring new material in, or maybe if a significant number of repeating mistakes start creeping in. Of course you might want to rehearse a bit more for the social side of it.

I've just been reading a little piece on Vincent Berton, who made this and another couple of dozen guitars and basses. Rather a tragic story, he took his onw life in the 1990s after producing the couple of dozen highly imaginative instruments. https://jedistar.com/vincent-berton/

Make sure your flies are properly done up then.

My ardour got severely dampened when I saw the price. Wonder if anyone on AliExpress will make a copy.

Are they different to the fret cutters then? Cutters to cut off a bit of fret tang to allow the fret to go into a bound neck?

I'd be looking at Hohner cricket bats or the Aria Sinsonido.

I did have a doubleneck 6/12 SG in the only possible colour, red, either CMI or CSL (it's a long time ago). Played it at one or two gigs where I mainly played bass but did the odd bit of guitar, but eventually sold it. No pictures, it was all before digital cameras and the interwebs.

I trust you didn't open the set by inviting the happy couple up for the first dance. The whole question is set in a very specific context. Uganda has just made homosexuality punishable by death, so I think "Two Tribes" might go down rather badly there for other reasons than Ukraine. Probably best not play anything by George Michael, Queen, or any number of others if you happen to be gigging there. Personally, I separate performer and performance. So Morrissey might have unpleasant right-wing views but that doesn't matter to me because he's such a bloody awful singer and I can't stand listening to him. Roger Waters may be a Putin fanboi but I will still happily play "Comfortably Numb".

Excellent!

Did you try https://www.woodsheets.com/ ? I don't know if they supply to NI but they provide a cutting service.

@Andyjr1515 posted a link in Repairs and Technical - https://www.chrisalsopguitar.co.uk/shop/guitar-tools/fret-pullers-and-fret-cutters

That is a very valid point. They're absolutely horrid things to play.

Yes, that's the tuning - similar to the bottom 4 strings of a 12-string guitar (an octave down from that, of course).

It would be worth checking if there are any bass bashes near you in the near future, there's a wide assortment of basses at those to have a play on.

From the 1986 Prince's Trust, Mark King playing a superb bassline on a Jaydee and getting almost a fretless tone from it in many of the fills.

Another vote from me for playing as many as you can. I get on best with slim shallow necks, so the Ibanez SDGR and EHB suit me but Spectors don't. For the same reason, I preferred the (cheap) Peavey Grind to the (quite a bit more expensive) Peavey Cirrus. I would also throw in Hohner as one to look at - the headless Jack and B2AV, and the headed Bass 5, which also have slightly chunkier necks than my ideal.

I bought a MIDI keyboard off Ebay recently. The seller arranged a collection with Royal Mail, which never materialised, so on Tuesday he took it to a post office. 48 hour tracked, so Thursday was a reasonable expectation for its arrival. However, no sign of it, and still no sign today, a week after it was dispatched. Seller has been really good, fortunately. The package was so good that RF received it twice. Maybe they lost it down the back of the settee after the first time, then found it again.

I liked my Warwick 5-string with then paddle headstock but it was impracticably long - I could only find one stand that worked with it, and it was awkward to fit in the car (after I'd managed to find a case for it).

Not Atrics? I had an Atrics double neck, 5 and 4 string - originally both were fretted but I defretted the 4-string neck. Sold it in 2009 - my notes for the Ebay description at the time mentions that the same bass was also sold as an H&S.

Peavey Cirrus 5 - the 4 is 34" but the 5 is 35".

Headed/headless is another consideration - two of my Seis are headless. All three were bought second-hand. So, headed/headless, fretted/fretless, number of strings, body type, facing wood, core wood, neck woods as starters. Then you have to start thinking about pickups and electronics. How many, what type, placement, any additional stuff like piezo pickups and 13-pin output. Finally there's the little extras like LED fret markers.

For the battery compartment, why not just put it back in without a battery?

I don't know why the Dwarf auto update was unsuccessful (I left it running for an hour or so) - just updated it manually, no problems. The Duo is an older one so I also needed to do a kernel upgrade, which I've now done and which went smoothly once I'd overcome my inability to read instructions.

There's a 1.13.1 fix release out. Just updating the Dwarf now, it's taking ages.