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Walk on the wild side with it 3 beat sustained note.

Good sustain would also be useful if you're covering a line that was originally played on a synth. I remember having to play a Massive attack song at uni that had whole notes in each bar. I played it on fretless. Birdland is another that springs to mind, and another I had to play at uni, (not surprising my anxiety problem resurfaced then ). Not songs that you get asked to play every day, but if you hit an open E in a song expecting it to ring out and it dies after half a bar?

Exactly, fretless is where sustain really comes to the fore. Watch a good fretless player using a nice rocking side-to-side vibrato technique to try and squeeze every last bit of sustain out of the note.

It depends on the music. I use an ebow to achieve sustain.

I guess that Radiohead’s outlook is that by accepting 40%, then they’re setting a precedent if this should ever occur again.

There's a pretty good Facebook group for London bassists. I used to be a member of it when I was studying music down there. Maybe join that if you do Facebook?

I really dislike gold hardware too. The bass that I'm buying in a few weeks time has gold hardware, which will be changed straight away for black.

But what happens when you get to check in and they say no? In an earlier post you said that with a mono gig bag you’d be fine. See my post above where the instrument was wrecked in a case, albeit not what I’d call a flight case. In my opinion, if you’re going to fly then either buy a seat, or check it in and use a proper case. Or do what I do and go by train 😊

It's good for spotting and thus avoiding posture problems too, i.e slouching or playing with badly bent wrists, the kind of thing that can cause health problems, bad backs, carpel tunnel etc.

This is why I would never trust an instrument in a hold in a gig bag. https://m.facebook.com/myrna.herzog/posts/pcb.10156407588423888/?photo_id=10156407577063888&mds=%2Fphotos%2Fviewer%2F%3Fphotoset_token%3Dpcb.10156407588423888%26photo%3D10156407577063888%26profileid%3D100005948112141%26source%3D48%26refid%3D28%26_ft_%3Dqid.6507544490493731762%3Amf_story_key.1252773455737901813%3Atop_level_post_id.10212912851870424%26__tn__%3DEHH-R%26cached_data%3Dtrue%26ftid%3D&mdf=1

Well that’s good news. Just disappointing for you about the instrument.

There was a guy busking on bagpipes by where I go for my afternoon coffee a few weeks ago. It was extremely painful listening to him. It might just have been that he was cold, but it sounded awful :).

Send it back.

I sometimes use a .125 B on my instruments. It's fine. A .125, .105, .085, .065, .045 is a perfectly normal set that you'll find sold by many string companies.

Guitar bags? Someone laughed at my comment, but a friend of mine has an Alembic Stanley Clarke and uses a guitar gig bag .

I can't think of any instrument that I dislike, when played well anyway. Bagpipes when played badly can be painful to listen too, but when played well they can sound incredibly haunting.