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P was my first bass. Can't play a J, not sure why, P is easier.

I used an ultrasonic cleaner, same result. Once had a set boil dry, never again! Ruined Mrs P's best saucepan.

Might have been Stink Foot while playing with Zappa.

Both products are probably the same stuff, can't imagine a slug tape factory and a (higher volume) EMI shielding tape factory.

The Yokles

True, there is a broad magnetic field. Look at the P bass pole alignment.

I got some 32 scale flat strings a few years ago from Bass Direct. I'm sure they had a webpage with actual ball to silk/taper measurements - can't find it now, perhaps it has gone. You could try them.

Did the same thing with the same bass in Birmingham. Since I'd never even picked up a bass before, it was the one I picked out from all the others, no use me trying it. I coud not play! Tend to use an narrow neck Ibanez these days, but whenever I pick up the P , it's just Wow! Oddly I find J's hard to play, luckily I was not attracted to those in the shop.

My 2013 Mex P had a curved rectangular spring under each cog, (fender design is different now). After about 6 months a thin black plastic washer, same shape as the spring started to appear and slide out on one tuner. Eventually all 4 did this and fell out. The low E tuner then started to buzz. Tightening the screw helped a bit but it came back. Changed to Hipshots, higher ratio easier to tune.

Beats my Grade 1 Piano. Went past the church hall where I took the exam last week - now a hot night club!

Scored for 3 violins, 3 violas and 3 cellos, here is Brandenburg no 3 for 10 Recorders.

There is a classically trained Flautist dissecting a Tull track somewhere. Worth a Look.

Who gave him the Friday substance abuse habit?

One of those things I found by chance on youtube. If you're a Yes fan stick with it (it's over 30 minutes but that's Yes' fault mostly) He's amazed at the sound of the bass. He's done a lot more of these, ELP's Tarkus has the keys score with him which is interesting.

The fireplace was not very wide.

Microfibre cloth, Synthetic bristle paint brush for all the little spaces. Finish off with goose fat.

No Idea. In one of his books, Rick mentions going to a first floor rehersal room to thrash out Roundabout (This is One-Take-Wakeman), the ground floor was occupied by the aforementioned girls plying their trade.

Caravan? You're a long way from home.

Any girls in fur coats outside?

It's quite easy on bass, only 5 notes, you should be able to work it out from this: https://www.mfiles.co.uk/scores/the-last-post.htm If you can't read the time, listen here (number 11): https://www.householddivision.org.uk/act-of-remembrance There should be a vid of Mark Knopfler playing it on guitar, in remembrance of The Northumberland Regiments who had huge losses in WW1.

I think you are OK as long as you don't break the link wire between the two halves, then you can't mount them incorrectly.

Only when you get what you ordered. I guess things can sometimes go wrong in a complex system

Last time I tried to log on to Amazon, they sent a verification link to my smart phone. Actually my phone is not smart (ancient technology Nokia), so I can't click or tap the link. That's no problem I just go to Amazon technical support to get help. They send me a link to get through to technical support.... Almost everyone else sends a text msg with an access code.

In the original guitar humbucker the coils were wired back to back (either series or parallel) and the magnets in each bar reversed otherwise the string signal from each half would cancel out. The signal from each half are virtually identical, but in a neck and bridge mix the signals are different so the situation is slightly different.