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I’ve taught via Skype. It can be frustrating for me as a teacher, I guess it’s the same for the students. You sometimes get a rather glitchy signal. I’ve recently used FaceTime which works a lot better.

What a fascinating thing to do. I toyed with the idea of a half-size double bass briefly last year; there’s a thread on here somewhere that I started. Lack of time prevented me from following through with it.

I think you did the best thing. Something as heavy as that is a two man lift, would guys working in the courier depot wait for someone to give them a hand, or simply roll it over, and over?

What would worry me, is who’d be responsible if it got damaged? How much is it to ship, fully insured?

I wouldn’t risk it tbh.

As others have said, it sounds like you’re hitting the pickups.

They’ve probably been unpacked and put straight out on display. This is why I like Bass Direct. Everything I’ve ever played there has been looked at and setup prior to going on display. It might not be set up how I want it, but we’re all different. The Bass Gallery is the same.

I’ve used a few of the McMillen midi controllers. They tend to be extremely well made, ignoring the QuNexus that became really sticky after just a few months. They seem to work best when used with a laptop or MacBook though. I had to buy a little interface thing when I was trying to operate an 0-Coast synth via midi using the QuNexus keyboard.

Measure it so there’s about 7 or 8 centimetres past the tuner, make a bend in the string, then cut about a centimetre past that. The bent bit goes into the tuner. You only really need a couple or three wraps around the tuner.

Has it got silk winding? I believe it’s ok as long as there is winding.

Does he still have the Wal? My uncle gave me a whole load of guitar magazines, some going back to the very early 1980s. There’s one with Mick Karn and Midge Ure, Mick talks at length in it about his Wal.

They don’t necessarily sound different.

There’s a Jaydee owners club on Facebook. Might be worth posting on there?

I had the same set all through uni, they’re incredible strings. They must have had thousands of hours use in that time, bearing in mind I was doing at least ten hours a day practice. The gauges do on paper seem odd, they’re incredibly well balanced though. The low B is something like .136, which seems really heavy compared to the low E, it feels right though.

It’s quite an unusual looking one, I’ve only ever seen red ones. Have you contacted the guys at Jaydee? They might know the whereabouts of it now.

I’ve never knowingly owned an instrument that had one. How common are they? I know Fodera use them. How do you tell if your instrument has one? I’ve been asked if the W&T I’m selling has one, I really have no idea though. I’ve sent Enrico at W&T a message via Facebook, thought I’d ask on here while I’m awaiting his reply.

This is going way off topic I know, I apologise 😊. The architecture is my main reason for going in to churches, I love looking around them, the architecture and the sound too; the reverb etc. I’ve noticed also, especially in Europe, they’re more and more resembling art galleries which is really nice.

Quite a few of the ‘Christians’ I know, seem to have quite a different outlook to my own perception of how a Christian should behave.

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When it’s jazz?