Count Bassy

I think it looks like quite a nicely made bass, though not enough strings and too shiny for me.

Cut the neck off at the first or second fret and convert it to a headless short/medium scale 'Warwick'? - but not at that price!!

Not taken umbrage at all, but you did say 'but the prices are a bit out there for a bass I haven't heard of' which is sort of judging it a bit, which seems slighty unfair if you didn't follow the provided link to find out any more about it. However, my apologies if I upset you. Perhaps I was having a bad day.

Brilliant amps, but: The amp is class H, not class D. - AFAIK Class H is a conventional amp but with a dual voltage supply, only uses the higher voltage supply when it needs it so when it doesn't the heat dissipation is reduced. It's 400 Watts into 2 ohm, but (due to the class H) 4000W peak. However £1800 for that set up is ridiculous. I bought a DBS7400 amp 4 or 5 years ago and paid around £350.

Ah you've got me there! I hadn't noticed that. In which case please ignore all my posts in this thread!!!!!

Perhaps arrogant was the wrong word. Presumptuous may have been better. However the point was that this is a bass instrument and aclling it a bass does not imply a 'bass guitar'.

In which case should you be judging them?

It's a bass banjo. As much right to be called a 'bass' as a bass guitar as far as I can see. Is actually a bit arrogant of bass chat to call itself that without having a section for Banjos, brass bass etc. which could just as easily lay claim to the site name?

Shame about the grill cloth. Give me a metal grill any day.

Ahem. The weight of a pendulum has no affect on it's period. It's all to do with the centre of gravity. Mind you you could measure the period with just the bass, than add a known weight at a known distance from the fulcrum. Measure the change in period, which would tell you how far the centre of gravity had moved, from which you could calculate the weight of the bass. All ignoring the weight of the string of course, and it has to be a small swing or it's not simple harmonic motion anymore (well actually it never is but at small angles the errors are literally negligible). PS TO MODS: Why can't we have an English rather than American spell checker?

So if for some medical reason I couldn't drive could I expect the promoter to provide and pay for a taxi both ways? And a real case: I really don't like opera, but it may be that I haven't had the correct education. Would the promoter please supply a qualified tutor to talk me through the performance so that I can fully appreciate it and get the full experience? There was a local case a few years ago where a small museum was told it had to install a lift for disabled people. It couldn't afford this and decided to close. So now nobody can visit. 95% of the population deprived for the sake of 5%. Society should take account of disabled people (although I'm not sure we can call them disabled anymore!!), but not be dictated to by them. I'm a bit grumpy topday because I normally vent myself over Private Eye (my wife calls it my Mr Angry magazine)on a Wednesday evening, but for some reason it didn't arrive yesterday.

I thought that that was what I was saying as well though, admittedly, in a round about way.

This. Tension is the force on the ends of the cable, irrespective of gauge. 'Same pitch, fatter string' or 'higher pitch, Same string' both require more tension. Whether a B string tuned to B or an E String tuned to E requires more tension depends on their relative gauges (assuming the same materials), so it is possible that going from EADG to BEAD will actually reduce the total force on the neck. Of course fitting an additional string without changing the others will always add to the load on the neck.

I have a genuine Woolworth's broom from 1951. It's a bit Roadworn, but the bloke I bought it off (someone called Trigger IIRC) assured me it was genuine, and it sweeps like a dream.

Sorry, should have put a big smiley on the original post - wasn't anticipating any serious replies!!!

But that would need three packs of cards!.

Just wondering.

Another one here, though on occasion took the Dizzy Cap with me! Also but a switch in the (electric) petrol pump circuit for shorter stops - Thief would get a few hundred yards and then stop.

Assuming that you're running this at the same power output as the MB amps I'm not surprised. It will be dissipating a similar amount of power but into a much smaller volume & surface area, so it will run correspondingly hotter.

Quite like some of the vocal phrasing though.

"If you're looking time then you'll be looking until there ain't not crying at the top of the hill. And you know darned well you'll be looking still when you head stops and your body is still." Also: "Weaver of Life, at last now I can see the pattern of my life gone by shown on your tapestry. After days of wondering I see the reason why. You've kept it to this minute, because I'm about to die"

My wife has had both of hers done and also said that the loical anaesthetic was by far the worse part. For the second one she doped herself up with standard issue pain killers (paracetemol/Coedine etc) before hand and said that that helped quite a bit. Once the local jab was done no pain at all though.

That is weird as even the more basic SRs have knurled metal knobs, which are fine (IMHO).

Yes, but that's still better than no bass player at all.

Roger Chapman & the Shortlist in January.