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Apart from the baffle, the screws in the 1x8 and similar designs are on the inside - from the battens into the panels.

Reading the links from that site, it looks to me (and I’m absolutely not an expert) that you want to avoid the band being seen as a separate entity from its individual members. So possibly keep a record for each gig that your fee was £x each and the person who receives the money directly pays out that £x to each of you, rather than say deducting any expenses from ‘band funds’ first.

How do you know that the OP isn’t a grasshopper?

Do you make more than £1000 a year each from it? https://taxhelpforhustles.campaign.gov.uk/

I didn’t realise there was a World String Change Day. I thought it was like Monopoly where you draw a Chance card and find it’s the dreaded YOU HAVE BEEN ASSESSED FOR STRING CHANGES, £30 PER BASS, £55 PER BASS WITH ELIXIRS.

Julie Fowlis and band at the RNCM last night, on a last minute shout as a friend had a spare ticket. A bit straight-ahead folk for me, and my Scottish Gaelic isn’t quite good enough to have fully appreciated it, but clearly top class straight-ahead folk. Who am I glad I didn’t try and see live last? Erykah Badu, who apparently kept her Manchester Apollo crowd waiting for a couple of hours before showing up after 10pm and having her mic cut off at the 11pm curfew.

I’ve just received my copy of Topics vol. 1, so I’m looking forward to joining in, although I can’t promise to necessarily keep up with the rest of the group! Thank you for starting this up though - it’s good to see some proper Theory and Technique action going down. And thank you @dkziemann for writing the book!

Just a public service announcement that might be of interest to electronics constructors - I picked this crimp connector set up for seventeen quid from the middle of Lidl yesterday. The crimp pliers work better (IMHO) than the highly-rated Japanese ones that go for £40 plus and in addition to the JST-XH and Dupont type connectors in the set, also work perfectly for Molex KK connectors - so much so that I will probably be flogging my Japanese one off on eBay shortly and hopefully getting more back for it than this Lidl set has cost me!

(a) possibly and (b) probably not, from my experience. Bracing you can add if you feel panel vibration when you test it with a signal generator (e.g. phone app) - I put in a couple of diagonal braces from the rear to the side panels on mine. I didn't use any wadding in mine and reckon it sounds great without, so I haven't bothered trying it with. Happy constructing! ps: I have one up on you, my mum actually used my tea tray for a bit.

Haha, I think 'ingenious' is stretching it a bit, but thanks! I can report that the 1x8 fits nicely in a Stagg cajon case, with a little room spare for cables or what have you. Although you need to be OK with the risk that someone will think you own a cajon.

That's fair enough. It's just that it struck me it was the one thing you'd used the word 'fun' about, and if your practice as a whole is getting you down, maybe it's time to take a bit of the pressure off and let yourself have a little more fun.

Sounds like you should do this a bit more often.

Back in the smoking days that was one of the non-fancy non-smoking areas, which is how a mate and I got to see Betty Carter from about that vantage point. Probably still a lifetime top ten gig.

The Songs of Joni Mitchell project (again), this time featuring Kate Stables as well as founder members Jesca Hoop and Lail Arad. After that, Emma Jean Thackray at Band on the Wall, on the off chance she wins the Mercury and becomes stadiums only from that point on.

With the usual disclaimer that I am not an electrician and if in doubt you should get the manufacturers advice etc, I’m pretty sure this will do it, or the equivalent part from any other supplier. In any case, 100 mA is approaching the smallest fuse current you can normally find, so it seems unlikely that it should actually be anything smaller.

I read that as slow blow, 100 mA, low rupture capacity, 250 V, which shouldn’t be hard to find - CPC website is down right now otherwise I’d find it there and give you a link. Is it 20 mm or 32 mm long and is it from a device’s mains inlet or something else?

Ooh. This looks fun. I shall get it 🙂

We have a local ironmongers, and they even still sell individual screws (I think)… but not M2 ones!

Plotting how to get my hands on the boss’s job? Not me mate, I’m just the bass player. from here

Just remember to take out the bit where it opens, “Sure, I can help you write a diplomatic breakup note for a band whose guitarist is a massive bell end and singer can’t hit a note for toffee”.

The company that operates the AI music generator site may say this, but I don’t think the law is settled yet as to whether they are correct.

Looks good, have fun! Do report back on how you get on with it.

Lee Ritenour at Band on the Wall - proper jazz-fusion royalty and no mistake. Munir Hossn playing some sort of singlecut six-string behemoth which I could not identify, and neither will you be able to from my terrible picture. Supported by Rosie Frater Taylor who rose to the challenge of holding the interest of a room full of (mostly) blokes who were there for Lee Ritenour with a solo set pretty well, I thought. Bonus artistic photo effect courtesy of my iPhone’s mind of its own.

Just spotted that current jazz guitar fave Rosie Frater Taylor is the support for Lee Ritenour at Band on the Wall next Monday, and grabbed a ticket. Reckon Ritenour and his band will probably be OK as well.

Scott Devine would definitely say raking and yes, do each exercise starting on both i and m, because you can’t plan every line so that every ascending A major run always starts on an i…