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I would also like Dave’s details if someone has them please. 🙂

Bought a book. No complaints! Everything as it should be.

I think that the 'collectibility' of vintage instruments is more down to sentimentality and myth than anything else. The main brand which does well in the vintage market is Fender, which is probably because they are the biggest company in the market, they're the most copied company in the market, they've been around for longest, and people remember wanting Fenders when they were kids because their hero played one. There is also the perception that Fenders of various periods are better (pre-CBS, etc), but because all of the pre-CBS models have been snatched up and now command astronomical prices, people moved onto the later basses which are now all more expensive, and now even the 80s stuff is starting to rise in price, which is funny because as far as I was aware, everyone seems to think that the 80s stuff is crap. Because of this, the market is huge, demand is huge, and sellers can ramp up the prices because people will pay them. Warwick doesn't have any of that stuff. They've only been around since the 80s, no one makes copies of their instruments, and the only people whose childhood heroes played them are people in their mid to late 20s because of the Nu Metal wave of the early 2000s (I'm one of them). The number of buyers for Warwicks is tiny compared to Fender, so if people try to sell Warwicks for high prices they just don't sell, because the demand and the mythology just isn't there.

Hi, I'm a maybe. If I can make it I'll bring my 3 Warwick basses and can bring a Warwick Xtreme 5.1 + 2x10 cab if anyone is interested/if there is room. Will probably also chuck in my pedalboard.

There is a short scale Rockbass available.

I love my Warwicks but I bought them all used and I won't be buying a brand new one without a hefty lottery win.

Recently picked up a fretless FNA Jazzman. Goes nicely with my 2005 Ltd Ed for a Yin/Yang effect! Planning on blacking out the hardware for the full stealth look.

My vote would go to Jens Ritter. I feel a bit grubby just browsing through his website.

I would like to chuck in 'Shine' by Take That, and 'Chasing Cars' by Snow Patrol. CC makes me sick in my mouth a bit.

I have D-tuners on the B-strings of my 5ers. So I guess maybe they are A-tuners? When I've got some more free time I'm going to investigate modding a normal D-tuner to have an extended arm so that I can have one on the E string as well.

[quote name='jazzyvee' timestamp='1435336849' post='2807899']I wonder if classical orchestra musicians carry backup instruments?[/quote] The stringed musicians will be carrying spare bows and strings. The reed instruments will all have spare reeds. The brass section will probably have a selection of mouthpieces. Not sure how many of them will have a whole backup instrument, but I've worked with a number of trumpeters who carried more than one trumpet around with them all the time. With orchestral instruments being acoustic, there is much less to go wrong, bar sitting on them.

On the flipside, if you have to be 'qualified' to criticise something, you must surely have to be equally 'qualified' to appreciate it. No one evers claims that people shouldn't be dancing to the funky music because they aren't musicians.

[quote name='anaxcrosswords' timestamp='1433933349' post='2795153'] I’m going to sound like a total nob by asking a question that must have been asked a gazillion times before. As a debutant, what would I be expecting to happen at a bash, apart from me potentially looking very silly? [/quote] You should expect me to look silly as well.

I'm moving to Shropshire this week. Would potentially be up for a little trip to Manchester if I could fit it in with work. I can bring Warwick basses and amp, and a large pedalboard.

I'm from Lichfield as well! Moved away for uni a few years back but my parents still live there.