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Could be a bit understaffed then, their largest hub is a couple of miles up the road from me and a significant proportion of the workforce is (or was) Polish so they might have lost a lorra lorra staff after Brexit.

And when did the change to UPS from being good to not being good happen? I've always used them when sending instruments etc as they used to provide very good service.

Jan Akkerman. Prince? Don't make me laugh. Capable multi-instrumentalist, yes, greatest anything, no.

0:52. Must have been too paralysed to press the space bar.

I prefer mackerel.

He composed the soundtrack to my biking youth. The live version of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" shown on the OGWT stuck in my head for ever.

So you're OK reading on alternate days then?

They were so crāp that most of them got thrown away, so they're very rare.

Are you saying Hellzero had a pea in the bed?

HX Edit and Stomp firmware v3.10 are now out.

I've got two Seis and a Hohner B2AV, and a MihaDo Fingybass. I've had a Status and a B2 before them. They're lighter than the equivalent headed bass, balance better (well, can you imagine how a headed B2 would balance?), and don't have dead spots. The only disadvantages are you can't use headstock-grabbing hangers or clip-on tuners. I intend to experiment with strap peg placement on the B2AV, I've seen an example where the strap peg was moved round from the back to the edge above the neck, equivalent to where it would be on a conventional instrument. Although I may not, as it's my back-up bass and I normally play sitting down anyway.

Yes, the energy is conserved. However, it's changed to a different form as the energy from string vibration is absorbed by making the wood flex, which in turn heats the wood up, thus converting vibratory energy to heat. The string is also vibrating in a magnetic field (as you have pointed out several times) and some of the energy in the string is transferred to the pickup windings in the form of electrical energy.

It's not the only variable. The player is also a variable. Do an experiment using a test rig which will hold a bass in a fixed position and pluck the strings in an identical position with identical force, altering the note played with a capo. That would be an experiment. I could hear some difference, except when he played slap when all four basses sounded identical. So tone is all about how you slap your wood.

Far canal.

That's barking mad.

Not a rhyme but a scansion issue. Tyrannosaurus Rex, "Child Star" - to make the lines "Debussy and Mendelssohn, Handel and Dvorak of old" fit, Marc Bolan sings "Dvorak" as "devorack". In "Ballrooms of Mars", he just gives up completely, apart from a desultory "stars/Mars" rhyme halfway through. "Telegram Sam" has "Sam/man" and "Slim/been" (in mitigation, he sings "been" as "bin").

I've finally got round to doing my own version. This uses 6 buttons and a 20 x 4 I2C display (much easier than messing around with 16 connectors). I've got the facility to change the selections on the screen but as yet I've just got one set of selections. I used a 5V Arduino Nano. Power supply is via a 9V socket, and I used a bridge rectifier to avoid any embarrassment about having the wrong polarity. There's two 220R resistors, one to the MIDI +5V and one to the MIDI Tx pin. All built on a bit of Vero, secured to the lid by 4 M3 spacers held on by J-B Weld. At first I had a problem with issuing multiple commands, but I realised that the Stomp would have to react to one before doing the next so I put a delay in. I found 100mS worked - I didn't bother experimenting further. This is the sketch: Stomp_switch_I2C.ino

Haven't you noticed who you're replying to?

Based partly on reviews here and also on other reviews, I went for a pair of Audio Technica ATH-M20X - smallest bedroom is now my office, complete with hi-fi system, so transferred my Sennheiser HD219s into there and bought these for downstairs computer/hi-fi/recording purposes. Found them very impressive, not sure if it was psychological but I heard detail in songs that I'd not picked up on before. Haven't worn them for an extended period so not sure about long-term comfort, but they seem comfortable enough, despite being sprung disconcertingly like a bear trap when putting them on.

Depends if you count all the different permutations of face to face, side by side, or end to end. Although the end to end one would be silly.

It took over a year for the other members of one band to notice that I played a fretless.

Jethro Tull. Surprisingly devoid of agricultural knowledge. Conversely, The Levellers are quite liberal in their outlook.

You just know what the copywriter's favourite book is, don't you? "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way".

Naturally.

It's timbre that we use to identify instruments, and that includes the envelope - which is why a plucked electric instrument played through a slow-acting noise gate or using a volume pedal sounds much like a bowed instrument.