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Michel Petrucciani Trio at the Gaume Jazz Festival in Rossignol on the 16th of August 1992. The place is 15 kilometers from home, and I usually go and see every concert of the festival. That year, I decided not to go even if Michel Petrucciani was playing because the other bands playing didn't catch my attention at all. I heard an interview of Michel Petrucciani saying that his disease wasn't lethal, and thought I'd go elsewhere to hear him play. I waited so long that I never saw him as he died in 1999...

Because the briges are far too high. This "bass" was already for sale some time ago, but it's a total waste of money even for £55 GBP which should be the asking price. No one called a luthier could ever make such an instrument. Nothing is made the correct way.

Stradi offers some 2,100 years old oak for the top of their basses. I got one on my Symphony Bass, but don't know if it's really dry.

You read it totally wrong indeed, you are interpreting as I never wrote that there is "no reliable way of telling from tone alone what the finger-board is made from, nor the body, nor which strings are used", I just mentioned the "issue" with the body wood by MusicMan, but you are forgiven as you are a drummer. It's an endless debate, but there are clues in your post and others too : to most of the people a bass is a bass is a bass, period. A lot use tons of effects including distortion and compression. I'm not pedant or patronising, but I play my instrument without any other effects than my fingers through the most transparent system possible including the on-board preamp when there is one and amplifier (combo) : this is what I want to hear, the notes I'm playing the way I'm playing them without any artifice. I even made an asked "conference" about the main basses and their differences in term of sound. I also explained how to set an amplifier to hear how your instrument really sounds so you can reproduce the same tone everywhere and that's quite easy to do. But I think this CITES thread is going in the wrong direction and that it's another debate. IMO, CITES has opened some minds to endangered species and to a new approach for making instruments, even if the makers are not the one endangering the species.

But they'll both taste like bananas, certainly with some difference in the taste, but you will be able to tell what they are by looking at them and eating them or even smelling them. It's exactly the same with woods or anything organic : there are the basic specifications by which you can identify them and then there are the oddities by which you can have some classification within the same species...

Could be, there is something reminding. I made myself the same comment.

If you have a detachable lead for your amp(s), simply buy a EU one or as much as you need, that will also do the job or changing all the plugs on the leads could be the option.

I think you don't know Christophe Leduc work, otherwise you wouldn't have asked : he is absolutely meticulous and a real luthier who tunes his woods... They were identical basses made the same year (1990) with the same woods (except the fingerboard) coming from the exact same source and stocked for years in identical conditions. The pickups were exactly the same just like the strings, the lead, the theme played, the sitting position, the wire, the pots, the output jack, etc. : identical twins but the fretboard. For your MusicMan's, they don't tell the wood they use for the bodies, except hard or soft wood and they don't tell their supplier nor type of drying... And they are mass production basses which means the body could be in 5 glued parts ash when the other is a 1 part body poplar If you admit that there's a difference between the type of copper (which I hugely agree) and the number of windings (again fully agreed), why not with the woods ? If you have the time to watch this documentary, you'll learn a lot about lutherie, the real one, not these non sense mass products :

The beer is also stronger, be aware. Most people drinking it like they use to do were completely drunk after 5 glasses. No kidding.

The tension is exactly the same all over Europe (220~240 Volts). So all you'll need is a decent plug adaptor able to manage the amperage of your devices, so avoid the cheap ones. And by the way, UK is in Europe.

Sorry, but if you don't hear the difference between ebony, rosewood and maple, it's about time to make an ear test as there are huge differences in tone. I know that most the musicians are almost deaf and only hear harmonics, but stop this please : it's not only a cosmetical difference, it's a tone difference. At a time, for some personal reasons, I had two identical Leduc MP 6 strings fretless basses (neckthrough abd bubinga wings), but one had a pau ferro fingerboard and the other a Brazilian rosewood one : there was a BIG difference in tone between the two. Strangely I ended up keeping the pau ferro one that had more bite and high mids, which was what I was looking for at the time. In November, I bought another Leduc MP 6 strings fretless I was hunting for 10 years : quite similar in contruction but the wings (flamed maple top over ash with a mahogany veneer in between) and the fretboard which is Brazilian rosewood. Soundwise you get a more present fundamental, more low mids and less high mids, so a hugely growling and mwahing fretless. I know I'm a bit harsh on this subject, but I'm really fed up with these comments. It's like saying that a carrot tastes the same as a cabbage.

He tried the pizza thing, but was certainly out of tomato as he didn't finish what he'd started : "After the carving the body was burned (with fire)"...

A Peavey bass.

Must be something like that, around £250 GBP. If I wasn't more than over satisfied with my AER BassCube, I would have bought it.

A very rare Frank Lehre (Hamburg, Germany) double bass combo for peanuts. The guy is known as the German Walter Woods and his amps and few combos are top notch quality. Everything is hand made and the guy seems to still be alive and able to fix his work and Walter Woods one. He made around 20 to 30 pieces... The price is ridiculously low. The link : https://www.zikinf.com/annonces/dispannonce.php?annonce=1490569

And Chick Corea, but for people smoking...

Joe Jackson did it...

I think everybody is missing the legal part. For copyright reasons it's simply illegal to photograph, film or record during a show... In the 80's, it was even printed on the tickets and reminded at the venue. The law is still the same, but people have become so egocentric and selfish that they don't care at all. You know, the next step could be drones blasting these cell phones (and maybe spitting on them first) and that would be great fun.

Are you sure you won't be assigned to trial with this publishing and did you get an authorisation signed in 3478 exemplars by JH himself ?

Are they trying to win the "ugliest bass ever made" competition contest at the Namm ?

And, most important, that plastic sound on the fingerboard that the black ones have has almost totally disappeared. A real relief. Never tried them on a fretted bass as I'm more on the fretless side.

Had them on my Sandberg Thinline Custom Fretless 6 and, while I hate the plastic sound of the black nylon's on the fingerboard, these are very good sounding, lots of harmonics with a fundamental you can hear, very precise with lots of mwah on this special fretless (only one passive Bartolini Quad Coil with direct output and set neck). Light to the fingers, but not as light as the TI JF. More harmonics and not the flat feeling under the fingers which can be disturbing. Quite expensive too. To me, the best nylon strings ever.

Was it smelling Indian food at that gig ?