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It's a 20 years old "digital" stage piano with semi-weighted keyboard, but for £80 you can't go wrong as Kurzweil is still a leading brand in that domain. Here are the original specs: https://kurzweil.com/sp76/

You're right @Burns-bass it's another stupid April fool's day joke. 🤦🏻‍♂️

It could be Alfonso Johnson too...

It reminds me of the numerous farewell tours of Chris Rea...

Ah ah ah, I forgot the mandatory stupid April fool's day joke. 🤦🏻‍♂️

So A.I. is just a bunch of clichés...

The price is quite high @Linus27 ... as expected. https://www.fktaudio.com/articolo/the-fretless/

Really superb looking bass. Congratulations.

Don't need but want!

That's indeed a real broken wrist position...

Here is my newly acquired Leduc BD3 fretted bass, bearing serial number BD3 060 A, so an early model from 1981, the tenth BD3 bass made in Fresse-sur-Moselle, France. It has a quite unique Canadian red maple neck through (only 100 instruments were made with this quite rare wood), a Macassar ebony fretboard with small Fender type frets and a bone nut, and two wings of French alder. Look at the continuous integrated ramp that became shorter after 1982. The scale is 33 inches. The pickups are the 1981 original Seymour Duncan Hot Jazz Bass (SJB-2) and Seymour Duncan Vintage Precision Bass (SPB-1), alongside a classic passive path (volume, volume, tone). The bridge is the excellent and original 3 points brass Leduc CG3. I changed the original Gotoh GB-7 for some very lightweight Res-O-Lite to totally avoid neck diving and replaced the original strap buttons by Dunlop Dual Design models for personal commodity. I, of course, kept the original parts. The total weight is now 3.960 kilos. I've put some DR Strings Legend Flatwound 45~105 on it as it was fitted with different brands of flatwounds when I got it and sounded nice (this certainly explains the lack of wear on the frets too). And these strings really serve this very bass: instant Motown on the neck pickup, terrific Jaco/Magma/Fusion on the bridge pickup and excellent scooped tone for chords or melodic progressions with both pickups on. So enough talk...

Tolerance in this domain is 10%, so no problems @fleabag.

But, sadly, they are totally unavailable on this side of the pond.

https://tonerider.com/product/jazz-plus/ You won't find anything better for the price.

Wow, lovely!

Usual mistake, it's a 4 notes bass line, it starts on a G#, which is where lies the mistake.

The differences will be in the wood, glue, trussrod, frets, nut and finish, so every component. The lower the price, the lower the quality of these elements, and sometimes a cheaper than cheap neck could be amazing, but it's really a lottery and when a trussrod breaks, because of its poor construction, you'll blame yourself.

John East, Mike Pope, Andreas Richter, amongst others are proposing this solution.

Too easy to move, I use an Ashdown CTM-100 with an Ashdown CL-414H.

Check the new Boss Katana 110 Bass, it has a 1 Watt power amp position and is more than complete. The full power position is impressively loud. It's a terrific recording tool alongside an excellent practice amp at 1 Watt output and an impressive amp at full power.

This is what I've used as a basis for my face to face piano lessons in a music academy: https://www.alfred.com/alfreds-basic-adult-all-in-one-course-book-1/p/00-5756/ https://www.alfred.com/alfreds-basic-adult-all-in-one-course-book-2/p/00-14534/ https://www.alfred.com/alfreds-basic-adult-all-in-one-course-book-3/p/00-36617/ There are 3 levels and all the lessons can be found here in video (looks like the guy wants to go through the keyboard, but the content is there):

Fender Jaco Pastorius...

I've seen one of the sword bass model in the late 80's at Universal Bass in Paris. I didn't try it nor buy it as it was, and still is, way too ... say ... rococo or kitsch. It took years to sell, that said.

This is indeed an excellent bass line, totally buried in the mix, which is really too bad as it's very Motown in every detail. It should have been better mixed, the way they were doing it at Motown, but British ears at the time were not accustomed to this kind of vibe, and so was the B team at Atlantic records, even if it's been recorded in Memphis by some of the Aretha Franklin's usual suspects... Here it is, if you want to learn it. 😉