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Yes, our sixth and last one. But I put it up here to show the benefit of the Renault Master front wheel drive chassis. Not needing to accommodate a prop shaft the load floor is much lower than your average Luton. Removal guys run these so it may be possible to find something similar. Our headroom was 2.4m

This? Renault Master,

Ben Packham?

Exterrrminate!

In the sixties the MM was the go-to music paper. NME just wasn’t in it. In the seventies I used to read Motoring News.

And the string heights will alter.

I thought it was ok particularly in the context of the usual Saturday evening tv fare. Quite a feat to get a potentially unwieldy large orchestra playing tightly together, most of the time. Good rhythm section played their part in this. Bass seemed a bit weak initially then it became stronger particularly when the arrangements doubled it with tuba. BVs great as were Jacob Lusk and Beverley Knight. Others in between were a bit iffy. And the audience were clapping on two and four. Strictly CD it wasn’t!

That’s terrible, so sorry. Laurence will do a good job on it.

Useful piano player, that HJ. Certainly knows his chords.

Who’s that bass playing fours?

Wobbly wasnt applied to their music - I like em. I was at Butlins with one of them when he was a two year old. I was referring to the front line physically wobbling about. Oh well, another post wasted.

Dire Straits were very wobbly, weren’t they.

Reminds me of the time I started a new school. Went into the assembly hall and saw a double bass on the empty stage. Just there. On its side. I’m not ashamed to say it was love at first sight and it informed my life for the next sixty years.

If it came into my hands I’d do a quick and dirty rig and just try to get an impression of its sound. Could be surprised.As PaulK says it’s something to be loved.

But a note of caution. I had a top of the range Martin. It had thunderous lows to the extent that I kept getting told from audience members that I was very very loud. But I wasn’t getting that on stage. If I turned the gain down I couldn’t hear much. I even switched the amp off in a seven piece and was ‘too loud’. So I sold it. I have no doubt they make excellent orchestral instruments.

Hasn’t been tested but it might.

I used to use this for applying just enough compression between the fingerboard and top. There’s a blue towel to protect the top.

Saw them in Birmingham five(ish)years ago. With three keyboards. They were great, particularly Zak, a worthy successor to Moon. It was Pino who was underplaying and not quite fitting in. I know, I know, but I just don’t get him.

And it served me very well too. But from the get go there was something iffy about it, particularly the neck. In its life it had at least three cracks in different places so there must have been some dodgy wood used. And I kept it in an unheated room. Here it is with past friends in happier times.

Mmm, hat peg tuners! Some nice lookers there.