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Too right! What loser would turn up in that abomination rather than the superb piece of British engineering above?

Shame the colour range and options are so limited. I want lake placid blue with maple and block, but would accept the tide pool with maple and block but they don’t do one as far as I can find.

Oh boy,

The last Internationale - we will reign, proper feel good song.

And the steel may not be low grade as such, it may have properties that are beneficial in other ways but rust resistance not being one of them. Personally I don’t like stainless strings, never found any that I like the sound of.

Dr Feelgood Roxette - the harmonica solo is just stunning. A massively underrated song by a massively underrated band imho.

Thankfully I want an American Jazz in lake placid blue with maple and block neck. I say thankfully as they are hardly common and I am skint......

NiN Broken, I listen to this regularly then seem to forget it for a few months and then go Wow! All over again. In my top ten of all time, so much energy!

One of my favourite live bands, I last saw in Manchester a couple of weeks before it was blown up. Then had tickets for Wolverhampton but sadly that was cancelled as Brian’s health wasn’t that great. Hoping they will be touring again soon.

I didn’t really get Placebo at first but then rediscovered them a few years later and they are now one of my favourite bands,

440 refers to standard 440hz tuning. You should never need to adjust that unless playing with musicians who use a strange base setting (possibly used on the continent but I could be wrong).

It sounds great, are you still going to try and get the discount or just sign up?

How are youu getting on with this? I am planning to sign up for the freebie two weeks on Saturday as I have next week off so make more use of it.

Thanks, that clears it up a little. I sometimes think my mind is too scientific for music as I struggle if I can’t find the ‘why’ as opposed to just accepting that is just the way it is. As I was hoping to mess around playing bass to accompany my fledgling sax playing (the reason the subject came up) I think I need to study this all a bit more!

Apologies if this is a stupid question, and it probably is, but what is the benefit to that? Is it purely the ability to move finger positions across instruments?

And a genuinely nice bloke to boot. I had the pleasure of is company for a short while a few years ago as part of a project I was involved in with 20 kids with a range of disabilities. He promised to come back and find us after the event and was true to his word and took time to talk to each and every one of them. Quite a day that was, Stirling Moss, another true gentleman also took a lot of time to talk to the kids.

That’s odd, they have replaced two of mine because of this, about a year apart. I just needed to send the product code on a small sticker underneath. Both bought at the same time but one developed the problem later for some reason. A dodgy batch by all accounts.

The bass makes sense, but if different instruments play different notes wouldn’t there be the possibility of it sounding terrible? Or is the interval such that it’s always ok? I think,I must be missing something really obvious here but just can’t quite get my head around it.

Doing some reading as part of yet another attempt at becoming slightly less musically inept with regard to theory. Couple of things I don’t get with relation to transposing instruments, firstly- why? Why would you want an instrument to play an A when a C is written? Is it some sort of trick for composers to get a fuller sound by instruments at different intervals? And secondly the article said a bass guitar is a transposing instruments, well that’s the first I have heard of that, so is it or isn’t it? Thanks in advance for helping me in my stupidness.

Leonard Cohen is guaranteed to get me out of any room. What a dirge.....

I had tickets to see him this summer. That’s all gone belly up sadly 😟

It’s brilliant, Bob Mould was going through a really rough patch of his life with band and relationship breakups and other problems. You can really hear it all come out through the album. And as we all know, happy people don’t write good music.............

Now you mention that, Black sheets of Rain by Bob Mould, utterly miserable and brilliant at the same time. My wife hates it.

I love NiN Broken, bit it doesn’t seem popular with many people. I think it’s a work of complete genius.

A wedding we played last year, seems a long time ago..........