knirirr

That is an interesting question, which has caused me to pause and reflect. I do have a bass with such a fake decal on it, though where the serial number should be is instead a small-print admission that it's made up out of WD music's licensed spare parts. Why I put it on is due to conversations along these lines: "Why haven't you got a proper bass?" "This bass is completely proper." "I mean an upright, they sound so much better." "I have got one, but I fancied playing this electric tonight." "Oh well, at least it's fretless, and a Fender." After putting that on I saw that someone (probably here) had a logo made which said "Offender Imprecision Bass". That's much better and I should have done that instead.

Earlier today I was discussing the pickups on one of my basses, and thought I'd look up the website to send to the person with whom I was talking. But, it had disappeared and the domain was listed as for sale. The Wayback Machine turned up a version of the site from the 5th of April with the text: So, presumably, these pickups are no longer available.

T&G Martin sell one with their name on which looks pretty much identical to that (I'd guess that it is the same one). I have got one, and it has been very reliable; the many handles are useful .

I think it went something like this: Before leaving school I discovered The Shadows, and thought that this electric guitar music sounded awesome, much better than what my peers at school were listening to (this was the 80s) and more exciting than the classical music pushed via school music lessons. Listening only is never enough, so I saved money from holiday jobs to get a cheap electric guitar (Hohner flying V). But, good as it was, there was something lacking, so I tried listening to blues, rock & roll, funk etc. to see if I could find what I was after. Eventually, I discovered that it was jazz I wanted to listen to and play. As an undergraduate, I learned how to do big band style rhythm guitar and joined the university band. When in this band, I realised that bass sounded rather cool. There wasn't any opportunity to play bass at the time, but when I graduated I bought an unlined fretless electric and switched over (here's an example from a year later).

I think that this is the chap they ought to be looking for to fill that vacancy:

I usually wear a shirt to match the bass (and Orange bass cab). A picture was previously posted here: https://www.basschat.co.uk/profile/40067-knirirr/?status=2573&type=status

This is why I shouldn't go up on stage at jazz jams; the public would rather hear the people better than me, and the people worse than me need the practice more and should play instead.

This piece has been stuck in my head recently, and I think it might meet the criteria:

Listening to this now. Not bad at all. Caveat: I quite like listening to a bit of fusion, e.g. Nucleus, Soft Machine or Miles Davis (e.g. Jack Johnson), particularly whilst working. It makes an interesting change from the usual hard bop & soul jazz. Edit: On track 3 now and so far I've not heard any slapping, which is nice.

At the usual jam (which is supposed to be gypsy jazz) no guitarists turned up, but four horn players did. The result was more along the lines of this album (but nowhere near as good). Interestingly, this changed sound caused an audience member to request contact info. for the "band" and the landlord to suggest we also played in another pub he manages.

I shall have to take a trip to Banbury at the weekend, I think! Good luck with the baroque stuff also.

I'm in West Oxfordshire, but I work in Oxford. The only place I'm aware of is the violin shop on Banbury Road, but I asked them and they said they didn't deal with basses or bass bows at all. As an aside, it's a nice shop which has been there for years. They sold the violin that I used to play at school for me.

I might well have to do that. The reason I was looking at going to the chap who can't get the black hair is that his shop is easy to visit in person; I'm less keen on posting my bow. Having tried black hair I do notice a better feel and tone, with fewer nasty squeaking noises.

FWIW I started bass (having first done some guitar, badly) on an unlined fretless with dots on the note at 3, 5, 7... etc. This was in fact fairly easy and so I'd not expect you to have any trouble with that arrangement. This reminds me that at a recent jam I had a go on someone else's DB. The owner disliked finding Ab on the E string and so had got a big white dot on the side of the fingerboard to mark it - just like the dot you'd expect to find on G on the sort of fretless basses I have always played. This made for an entertaining tune as things tended to drift a bit sharp if I glanced to the left and caught sight of it out of the corner of my eye.

Does anyone know of a UK supplier who can provide hanks of black bow hair for bass bows? A local luthier will rehair bows for me but can't get the right sort of hair. I suspect the postage/tax on https://uptonbass.com/shop/bass-bow-hair-hank-black-for-1-bow-rehair/ would render such a purchase too expensive.

We played the opening slot at the Charlbury Oktoberfest today - so, now I have a souvenir "glass" with the band's name on it. Unfortunately, the bassist of The Inflatables (also mentioned on the glass) isn't on this forum; apparently they've been playing since 1980 and he was one of the founders.

It's probably not what you're after, but I hope you don't mind me mentioning this just in case. When I bought an amp for gigs I was looking for exactly the same thing; a light combo. This search resulted in buying an Orange Terror bass with 1x12" cab instead. The cab is about 12kg so a little under half the weight of the Trace Elliot combo I sold on here, and it is quite capable of playing jazz/fusion gigs in pubs or small beer festivals. I've never felt the need to get a second cab for it. Now, I'd be tempted to by a small solid state head to go with that cab and save even more weight.

I've got one. I've never noticed it spinning around in any way, but it is not quite as comfortable as holding an acoustic. Also, it has an Eb neck. I happen to like this but apparently it's less common.

This has now been claimed and will be in the post shortly.

I tried some of these (the fully synthetic version) on an EUB with good results: https://gollihurmusic.com/upright-bass-strings/3-4-and-4-4-size/4-string-standard-tuning/evah-pirazzi-gold-slap-upright-bass-strings/ These are on my acoustic: https://gollihurmusic.com/evah-pirazzi-upright-bass-strings/ When I brought up the topic of guts in a lesson the answer was that though the tone may be good, the hassle wasn't worth it in the end.

I've heard it said that the following album (sneaked in here is I supposed it might be considered a cover) should perhaps not have been recorded. I must refrain from commenting; intonation, glass houses, stones etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DDY0SDjAXo

Having bought a Squier Jaguar I immediately replaced the rounds (which I very much dislike) with flats, so if the former are of use to someone I could send them on (assuming you don't mind paying for postage).

I have just received some of the gold variety which I ordered based on comments here. Very nice indeed.