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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. 

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. 

On 30/10/2025 at 02:23, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

your knees, which can't hear them, rather than by your ears, which can. 

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. 

On 23/10/2025 at 20:13, Rob MacKillop said:

Looks like it's just you and me, Gareth...oh well. 

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!

2 hours ago, rwillett said:

I'm still unsure if horizontal and/or vertical bracing is needed here and also if wadding is needed. 

(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.

On 11/07/2023 at 08:40, Phil Starr said:

There are some ingenious adaptations of the design including some clever bracing and a new handle all covered in the thread. 

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.

On 19/10/2025 at 13:55, kwmlondon said:

I should but I make more progress on the fretted and for a very long time that's been incredibly rewarding. When I'm doing my drills I usually feel the same way people do when they mediate. I tend to pick up the fretless after I've had a good couple of hours and I want to mess around, you know?

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.

30 minutes ago, kwmlondon said:

I have occassionally messed around with my fretless and it makes me giggle - it's like driving a car blindfolded! I sound SO bad but it's fun!

Sounds like you should do this a bit more often. 

On 16/10/2025 at 18:10, toneknob said:

Donnie McCaslin at Ronnie's. Treated myself to a fancy seat 

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 🙂