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I'll take the stools.

Get some paracetamol on hand. 😉

They did, I owned a few and @itu has an original one.

Is the neck really well tightened as a not firmly screwed (and maybe screwed up too 🙃 ) neck acts as a dampener. And a too soft body will act the same way. If there's a shim, check that it's made out of hard material. Otherwise @chris_b is right and just sell it. Bad instruments do exist and by Fender it's even a kind of epitome. The good ones are quite rare simply linked to the fact that they assemble parts without caring if they really fit together and just sell the whole as an instrument, not giving a sh*t if it's good or bad : they just have to make profit. Harsh for some, but it's the plain truth. The funny thing is that I'm still looking for a very good sounding P-Bass after more than 30 years : there's always something wrong and I've played a lot and owned a lot too...

@StickyDBRmf : and the monorail bridge patent belongs to Rolf Spuler too just like the D-Tuner for it. Thanks @LeftyJ

Here are my two original Ibanez AFR from 1991, designed by the late Rolf Spuler, a true luthier and genius. These are certainly the most beautiful and ergonomic basses ever made. Are you sure you know the definition of ugly ?

It's even better to hydrate well before than after as your organism will take much longer to extract the elements it needs afterwards (it's a long process). That's the hunting Pygmies trick : hyper hydration before chasing their prey for hours. They drink as much water as they can using their digestive system as a water tank, so we are speaking in liters or even gallons here.

Don't buy at Bax. It took 28 days to get a refund for something they were pretending they could have in stock very quickly, but that they never got. I had to lodge a complaint by PayPal after 14 days of waiting my money back, with all the documents sent to me by Bax agreeing to refund... What is even more amazing is that they even waited the 10 "answering" days given by PayPal to refund !!! Never again.

Sonic Bloom is not my favourite album of Hiromi, but it's a great one for sure. I don't like Stan Getz that much too, that said.

The Monte Grappa one is fascinating and horrible at the same time. So many dead people for just a mountain...

Dolomites are beautiful. That's the place where my grandmother was coming from. Beautiful places all over.

To me her best era is definitely with Simon Phillips and Anthony Jackson ! Period. I think I've listened to all her material with whoever. Don't forget that she was Chick Corea's protégée and they recorded an excellent, but now hard to find, record with them both on piano, simply called Duet. She also recorded a few albums with Stanley Clarke ! Listen to this live and don't underestimate Steve Smith on drums and Anthony Jackson in his certainly favourite style of music :

The late Eddie van Halen made a similar slaughter to his Kramer and everybody loved it. Maybe it's just missing the stripes...

It has LOXX Strap Locks system. At this price, why not give it a try. It will need some decent pickups screws. The sunken pole pieces are maybe there for a more balanced sound... Ask for a soundclip.

He made one, at least, that seemed to "work". Here is the Ergo Viola da Gamba. That said the band name couldn't be more well chosen...

I had an Ergo 6 strings too, and it is indeed very similar, except that this Viola da Gamba doesn't seem to have been made by a 5 years child pretending to be a luthier...

Here's Jordi Savall, the master of medieval music playing a short piece with an acoustic one.

It's a typical Viola da Gamba, a late medieval contender of the double bass, the cello, the violin and also the guitar... The frets were made out of gut and movable to tune accordingly to the piece to play, like on a sitar. There's indeed an Ergo look here, but no sure it is one.

I will work with any box, not only cereal ones, unless you are a cereal killer.

I feel for you. It happened to me once, but not because of slap, because I made an audition with a fretless for a heavy stoner band... You used a strategic marketing system which consists in saying to people not to focus on a weak point to force them to focus on it. It's a natural human reaction. It's used to force people to focus on an unique selling point presented as a weakness when it's absolutely not one. Your weakness is a real one and by telling them, they simply focused on it and missed the rest. You've been honest, which is great : you are a bassist after all. 🙂 Next time, just play and when you get the job, improve your weak point. We live and learn every day...

Theoretically yes, but when I hear someone playing a piano he has tuned, I feel good, whatever the key signature is. He has been tuning pianos for schools, privates, festivals, classical musicians, jazz musicians, ... and each time a piano he has tuned is played, you can see a smile on the player face on the first notes. I have no other explanations, but I'll start learning the usual way, for sure.

Funny, because the Just Intonation tuning sounds perfect to my ears as there are no more notes wobbling. To my ears it's a delight, but it's something I know for as long as I can remember. Next Thursday I'm starting to learn the piano (which is the epitome of Equal Temperament tuning) : wish me luck as I think the intervals will hurt my ears. My teacher has perfect pitch, so it will be great fun. That said I know a piano tuner who tunes the pianos his way (he's a master conservatory singer) and it's closer to the Just Intonation than the Equal Temperament.

Very good catch @spacecowboy, these early Zak-Mayones basses were, for sure, Warwick copies, but at the time, they were better than the original. As @LukeFRC noticed, the structure of the neck wood looks like walnut (bete) indeed. The stripes are certainly wenge just like the fretboard. If you look here, it seems right except for the fingerboard mentioned as palisander which means rosewood, but is clearly not. And bodo, which other name is boire (another wood close to the afzelia) is maybe the headstock veneer... For the record, loads of Jerzy Drozd basses have an etimoe, close to afzelia (Warwick filiation again) without being one, body.