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Game on! Looking forward to seeing more of these nifty little cabs coming to life.

To be fair, that particular piece of kit has to be a good 40 years old. Model A or B, btw?

That's very nice indeed! Listening to the oud album on Bandcamp now.

This sounds great, please feel free to share recordings/videos/links!

Hotcha, from the north Stockport / south Manchester border!

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Yes the original key is F. I was being optimistic with 180, it actually goes at about 240! What I'm kicking myself about is that in my memory the piano part did a much heavier chord on the 1 of each two-bar phrase, like BOOM! da-da-da-da-da-da-daaa, BOOM! da-da-da-da-da-da-daaa-daaaa, and how much more McCoy Tyner than that can you even get? NONE MORE MCCOY TYNER.

GOT IT

Thanks but nope. Definitely a sixties sound not bebop. I’m sure you’d get it instantly if you knew it, but maybe it’s more obscure than I thought.

I should have said, it's over a pedal D chord (in the key I've written it, which is probably not the original key obvs).

Thanks, I did try Musipedia which gave me a lot of what looked like trad folk tunes and some other you-hum-it-I’ll-recognise-it site which reckoned it was Dua Lipa 😄 I’m sure someone will get it soon and I’ll kick myself.

I've had this as an earworm all day and can't for the life of me remember what it's called. I'm fairly sure it must be by some mid-Sixties quintet or bigger band, someone like Herbie Hancock / Wayne Shorter / Joe Henderson / Freddie Hubbard, but I've had a scan of their likely-looking albums on Apple Music and not come up with anything yet. This would be the A section, it does something else after that that I don't recall. Anyone recognise it?

Well I'm still on page 11 so no pressure from over here…

It's a secret (oops!) long-held ambition of mine to play these on bass one day, but setting up an instrument in 5ths specially seems a bit like cheating to me 😄 I guess one could play around with the D’Addario string tension calculator (there seem to be various string tension calculators online but as far as I can tell they all acknowledge D’Addario’s data), or just try some out. If you started from a standard 5-string set you could do BFCG using the B and G strings at pitch and the E and D strings respectively tuned up and down a tone, or from a 6-string set EBFC in a similar sort of way. I do possess a 5-string fretless that I haven't settled on a stringing for yet, and a variety of secondhand strings, so I could have a go at some point and report back. I haven't properly started trying to learn fretless yet though, so I won't be sharing any attempts at playing Bach on it for a while…

Emma-Jean Thackray at Band on the Wall last night. Absurdly enjoyable. Matt Gedrych doing crucial stuff to the low end.