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I chance upon the solution: buy 7lb basses, and you can carry them on one shoulder for half an hour, no problem 👍

During my happy time with my 424 I mostly used GHS Boomers, which especially suited the middle position. My new LB100 arrived with a set of Boomers on. After very little play, they've come off, as that bass needs steels. Would anyone with a 414 / 424 / 1024 like to try out Boomers with this nearly-new set of 45-105 gratis ?

I looked at the sellers on Amazon Marketplace to see who was selling Roto Bass sets at a good price. (From GAK and Strings Direct they're now £22 plus delivery) Stargate Guitars in Banbury have the RB35/40/45/50 sets for £16.50 (including free delivery) when ordered on their own website. They have PayPal.

If you want some more terminology... By detuning the guitarist turned his guitar into a transposing instrument. A standard guitar is a Guitar in C. Detuned by a semitone it is a Guitar in B. In Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, essentially a concerto for violin and viola, the viola is uptuned a semitone, from CGDA to C#G#D#A#. The violin part and the all the parts for the orchestra's stringed instruments are written in Eb major, with the viola written in D major. Mozart himself was a viola player.

If you ever find yourself in conversation with anyone from this self-elected priesthood, turn and run 🏃

In my one experience, everything I had paid to them was refunded, so my net cost was only the return postage.

Contrast that with what Bass Direct write. And I found them to be absolutely as good as their word. The link on the Bass Bros homepage to their returns policy doesn't work, but they too simply got on with things politely and efficiently. (Yes I am embarrassed that have experience of both of these. As Oscar Wilde wrote, to need to return one bass, Mr. Rioli, may be regarded as a misfortune; to need to return both looks like carelessness.)

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The story behind this bass is that no one has fancied playing it for 50 years.

For the third and last time, used Bass Direct to sell a sub-£500 bass. Once again, a breezy, frictionless experience. I like that they're honest and realistic about suggested pricing. I would have undervalued two of them and overvalued the other.

Well, someone has! It was priced to sell, so I wan't surprised to see it go on its first morning. I think I lost about £300 on it. But for the pleasure it gave me, I don't mind in the slightest. It has lots of upfront confident character. I only sold it because my knackered shoulder wants ultra-light basses from now on, and only sold it once I had a like-for-like replacement for it. For the first six months of 2022, it was the only bass I played. Just before sending it off I replaced the half-dead set of 50-65-85-110 Pro Steels with a set of 45-65-85-105 Swing Bass, as the Rotosounds are much more well known, and Pro Steels don't appeal to everyone. The cap is .022, btw, I found the original cap and the Dimarzio didn't make the tone knob do anything very useful. I hope you enjoy owning it

Don't worry, it's just my stalker trolling my thread

So, for now, my two basses are my SB-1 and this LB-100

Having two basses both with Model Ps and Pro Steels would be beyond even me.

I don't think I ever had the need to go beyond the 15th fret...

James won't let him

I just received a G&L LB-100. It'll be getting the same treatment as my Squier: a Dimarzio and Pro Steels. The Squier is already gone.

My favourite detail

At least there's no danger of anyone wondering, who are those people?

Advertising ain't what it used to be

Early Smiths, Andy Rourke's bass was tuned F# standard. A bit later, when he started recording with E standard, he would still tour with a F# bass for the early songs. Details lovingly collected here.

A worthy exception to your rule, I feel: 5+0 ... white ... pointy inlays ...

No, not just you, yeuch

Presumably the USA built version (which is usually around the same weight range as the Tributes) does balance .... and that will have their lightweight tuners. My USA LB-100 has those lightweight tuners and balances perfectly — despite weighing only 7 lbs 0.