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Yes, almost every song. Especially improvising / walking, there's always a 5th below which I can drop onto without even thinking about it and barely moving a finger. As said, easy tight fingering patterns across the neck. Almost always gig my GMR 5, but I've re-strung my Jazz BEAD. I do love the high C on my Ibby 6 too, but that's for special situations like solos.
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The body shape, headstock shape, and wood grain all look GMR to me (bottom horn might be a bit too long and thin?). Also the matched wood electronics cover on the back. The angle of the tuners looks wrong (on all my three they are at right angles to the line of the neck) and I've never seen one with the input socket angled into the front of the body. I've also not seen that lighter wood detail on the front at the end of the fretboard - although GMRs are all individually hand made to customer's spec so that's not a stopper. As Romeo2 said, GMRs typically go for a fraction of a comparable quality bass from a better known luthier. My fretless 4 was £350 and you'd be lucky to match it for a grand. These two are definitely real (sorry for blurry pic!) ps GMRs have superb sustain. On all my three, a single note will stay strong for a full two bars at moderate tempo. I haven't played a Mayones (as said, the other likely make) so I can't compare - but if yours doesn't have exceptional sustain, it probably isn't a GMR. It's also worth taking off that back plate and looking behind it. If you could post a pic of that I can tell you if it looks like mine.
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Slightly unusual - my birthday blues jam! Lovely tiny local venue which was packed with 25 people. My son and grandson came from Nashville to be there. All my favourite om regulars played, including the mighty Victor Brox, and the singer and drummer from my band. Mostly blues, but some beautiful traditional English folk music too. I'm in awe that so many fine musicians would come out to celebrate with me 🙂
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Only thickened skin, but it's surprising how fast one loses it. A couple of years ago my left side was smashed up and I couldn't use my left arm for about three weeks. That was long enough that my fingertips went completely soft and the simplest of slides really hurt. I've developed the fidget-habit of rhythmically digging my thumbnails into my fingertips (on both hands) to keep them tough. So I thought they were in pretty good shape, but I tried my son's electric guitar this afternoon and the strings felt like cheese-wires.
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I grew up with only classical music in the house, but I remember vividly, aged about 6, sitting on the floor in front of the one speaker of our (then state-of-the-art) mono record player tracking the cello line in a Mozart string quartet. One answer still is, anything with a strong interesting bassline. What do I listen to most often? - blues, blues/rock, folk/rock, prog, reggae. What do I listen to most closely? - baroque, if possible with a score to try to understand how it works. There are specific songs from genres I'm not into overall (if I'm lucky enough to find them), which just grab me - sometimes because they say something that speaks to me, sometimes because of the bassline. What do I most love playing? - we're a blues band going back to little-known early songs, but we bring in flavours of gospel, jazz, early rock'n'roll, prog, and indie. I love anything that we all love playing together.
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At a blues festival a while back I had breakfast with a musician and his wife/roadie who had had exactly that problem at a pub gig the night before. I suggested they should get high-vis vests and wear them just for the load-in and load-out. <Comment on current far-right politics withheld>
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2019 Gear Abstinence Challenge (Updated with 'rules')
josie replied to Sibob's topic in General Discussion
Like-for-like yes, but I'd have thought replacing still perfectly good b0g standard rounds with something more interesting like tapes or flats was outside the rules? -
2019 Gear Abstinence Challenge (Updated with 'rules')
josie replied to Sibob's topic in General Discussion
Possibly partial redemption - the set of strings I most want (5 D'Addario black tape-wounds) is coming my way as a birthday present from my wonderful band mates next week 🙂 Does it count as abstinence if you're asked what you want as a present and it's given to you? GAS fulfilment without spending money? 🙂 -
Some good words for chrome flats here (including from me 🙂 )
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