BassTractor

No, I think the more fair comparison for popular songs would be with his late string quartets. 😉

Coz if my dansband and C&W circles knew I secretly love Penderecki, Stockhausen and Xenakis, they'd come after me! 😉

I'd guess such a project yields too little for Lego as to expected spin-off, so I don't expect them to offer the product. That said, under the "ya never know" slogan, I've done the support thing.

Ha! I actually contemplated telling the story of my former girlfriend, who picked up the bass and as her first song played ... exactly that ... 😱 Mind you, she already was an accomplished musician, nearly getting the job as second flautist in the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Since I'm here anyway, some days ago I mentioned "Games Without Frontiers" as my first song. That was before I tried to become a bass player. A buddy of mine had gone on for 15 years about how he should be playing a musical instrument, but "now" it was too late to start. Fed up with this nonsense, I taught myself said song and when this buddy visited me, I pushed the bass onto his lap and said upon him that he wasn't gonna leave the premises before being able to play the song. He abided, and some years later became the bass player in a local band. ... the irony being that I myself still can't play the bass. 😀

Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel

In response to what @tauzero said, from my own line of work some decades ago: - the factory builds a fibreglass kayak at a certain cost and adds 14% to reach a selling price. - importer adds 17% to the in-price. - shop adds 35%, hoping the costs remain at 25% so the income is 10% (or just 7.4% of the selling price, which equals to 5.9% of the price-including-VAT) Other numbers for other (normally cheaper) products, other lines of trade, etc. etc.

- Ordered last Monday evening for a Friday evening delivery (according to Thomann site). - Dispatched Wednesday. - DHL said delivery was to be Thursday evening, but then I got a delay message from them. - Item delivered Friday morning (this being in The Netherlands). That's three and a half days within the EU. I'd guess you could add two or three days for the UK.

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Not that bad, I find, once one gets one's head around certain aspects, which admittedly does take more time than say working with a Minimoog. Of course the lack of patch storage easily becomes a drawback.

Echoing @Happy Jack: "I know, I know, but it does really good bass sounds too ..." (for the unitiated: it's two Behringer 2600s, the tiny and cheap ARP 2600 clone, each spawning three oscillators and most of what you need to make a bass monstah).

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Thoroughly in the "what the song needs" camp. Happily though, every song needs a complex line.

My bad. I meant reeds. Me mixing up my languages, that was.

Dutch classical pianist Daniël Wayenberg, after cöcking up during a relatively light-hearted Sunday afternoon concert, went down on his knees and crawled under the grand piano to pick up the missed notes, to then throw those notes back into the piano and play the piece from the start again - - playing well, this time. The audience lurved it.

IMS, technically, they can have different reeds with them so they can tune to a piano or an organ or somesuch, but indeed: When doing a gig with an orchestra (me on the organ), the oboe player was well grumpy initially, and explained what a hard time she had with this. Me, I don't really know what the problem is, but at a guess: they're not bringing 60 reeds to cater for a whole range of to-be-expected tuning standards. Edit: had used the word "fleece" for "reed".

Haven't watched the vid, but if the C=512, then the A can well be 432, depending on the system. The nonsense is not in the arithmetics, but in the taking random frequencies as being somehow "better".

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One point of a four might be that (if true) one never gets "that" low E timbre from a five. Just throwing this in: I have no idea myself, but this was said by a producer in a well-known studio. Me, I'd imagine that a wider neck's stiffness would indeed change the timbre, but you guys must know a lot more about this than I do.

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