Happy Jack

Cautiously optimistic ...

Without some idea of who actually wrote this, frankly it's pretty meaningless.

I think we should be told.

In truth, I always thought that a "Sonic Maximiser" was what we used to call a Volume knob.

Was any sticky-backed plastic involved, at all?

And the No Sh!t Sherlock moment: as this bass has a 35 inch scale; so even longer than a long-scale 34 inch

Just be glad it's restricted to the noises.

Assuming that you had that ability in the first place.

Not entirely sure why anyone would want to do this anyway.

I'm guessing it's somewhere near Cairo?

Y'see, I always thought it was when Elvis got drafted.

When you carved your name into the body, you spelled it wrong Andy.

I know a drummer who can do this for you too ...

Personally, I rather liked the Page / Hendrix flick-switch ...

There's a well-known blues outfit in London called The Delta Ladies - they're actually two guys in drag playing guitar and fiddle plus a percussionist. The percussionist sits on a stool holding a large djembe under his left arm, and he has his cajon on an angled stand alongside him to his right. He routinely plays the djembe with his left hand + the cajon with his right hand + various bits & pieces with his feet. It doesn't just look good, he's also a top-notch percussionist and his set-up allows him plenty of variety.

Bugger! I was looking forward to catching up, Steve.

Agreed, unless they are on-boarding a shedload of new material in a hurry.

You can almost hear the foam under the strings ...

Too much fun? Well that's news to me, Too much fun? There must be A whole lot of things that I never done ... I ain't never had too much fun. Bill Kirchen

And think of all the time you'd have saved!

Shall we play a game?

Are we going to allow bots to play? If not, then the reality will emerge, which is that there are only 12 Basschatters and almost all the user names are imaginary ...

Why did you buy two sofas with slightly different colours?

They were made by both Hagstrom and (under licence) by a Czechoslovak firm that just called itself Futurama. The Swedish models had nicer design touches (like the cheese-grater grille) and a rather nicer neck. In good nick they play as well (or as badly) as any other 60s shortscale. The intonation is clumsy but with flats and a thuddy sound that's no more of a problem than it was for the Hofner Violin, its exact contemporary. If you run out of trussrod adjustment and the neck is banana'd then the very high action which results will leave very inconsistent tuning up and down the neck.