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    Who plays tenor and/or piccolo bass?

    in Bass Guitars

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    1 hour ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

    Well, that would technically make it a baritone guitar (baritone guitars pretty much being defined by usually 27" to 30" scale length guitars typically tuned in either B or A standard tuning, though 27" or 28" scale length tuned in B standard tuning is the most common).

     

    Also it is not just me who call it standard tuning, it is pretty much a standardized (no pun intended) term.

     

    Likely a bit of a grey area, this is 30" scale and envisaged as a Bass Vl, but tuned as above on thinner strings, many of these things kind of "meet in the middle" somewhere.. I liked a long scale 4 string tuned up too btw, though don't have one set up like that now. 

    Conversely I've also got a big bodied acoustic guitar that I've made into a 4 string (narrowed the neck down etc) and tuned down with B being the lowest note, I'd kind of thought of that as a sort of "tenor guitar" but it's likely a bit low tuned for that, plus it's got a full length neck unlike many tenors that are somewhat shorter. 

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    Who plays tenor and/or piccolo bass?

    in Bass Guitars

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    I have messed with this kind of thing and it's quite interesting, the nearest I've got going at the moment is one of the Bass Vl 's I have, it's tuned to what you'd call A standard, the same relative pitches as a guitar but down A to A so about half way. Works well imho. 

    Wheter this counts or you're just talking 4 bangers? 

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    Who's good for couriering basses at the moment?

    in General Discussion

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    48 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

     

    Yep, online on the parcelforce.com site, which is where I noticed where you but it it mentions it will appear on your statement as parcel2go.com.

     

    Ironically I had previously gone to parcel2go, where the cost was £18, which is why I thought i would check parcelforces site.

    I've actually done PF through P2G (and directly for smaller items as I recall) in the past, but certainly seems far better value going direct, good call 👍

    Who's good for couriering basses at the moment?

    in General Discussion

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    36 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

    I was very surprised - I bought a bass that was pickup only last week, and the basschatter very kindly offered to box it if I could courier it. So I looked around and thought I would give parcelforce a try. Did the dimensions and the weight and it ended up at £10. I thought that was cheap so I got my wife to double check as she does lots of shipping, and sure enough, same result. So I thought maybe it is the cost of cover that bumps it up - it was covered to £150, so I thought I would put it the cost which was £250 and it went up by £2, so I got that too (ok, no good if they break it but if they lose it which seems more likely).

     

    So I booked a 48 hour service with them where they turn up with the labels, take the box and deliver it here, which they did, all went smoothly. £12.

    I've done parcelforce a couple of times recently, delivered on time with no probs

    ... did you book that online directly with Parcelforce btw? 

    When some BCers say they're not much cop at bass.....

    in General Discussion

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    I'm not "technical" at all, but I can play as well as I need to for what I do (or have done).. and guess I've always been fairly good at coming up with riffs /grooves/ ideas to build songs or pieces on, or suss out a suitable part for other people's material. 

    I pretty much never "practice" as such but find I can generally put the thing down for some time and then pick it straight up again with no loss.

    I could never play in an outfit that required reading the dots or similar, then again I wouldn't really want to anyway 😁

    I'd say the important part is to provide just what the piece of music requires, no more, no less. 

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    Anyone else just ready to give up?

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    I've had huge gaps of time in the past doing nothing musical at all, about 20 years in one case. It's something you can put down and pick up again I found. The first gig I did after the long hiatus was an O'Neills type place, pretty packed and went down well, it kind of felt I'd never been away. 

    Nothing wrong with having a break from it, can even give you a new perspective and steer you in other creative directions, but bear in mind you can always jump back in again, you're not necessarily by any means "giving up" .. 

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    One of those days that only Tom Waits can make better

    in General Discussion

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    Haven't thought about him for years, he's certainly "unique" I suppose. 

    I actually saw him live in Manchester would've been 1981 if I remember correctly. 

    It was a good gig in fact, somewhat different to what I'd normally have gone to see at the time but good to try other stuff sometimes. 

    The one that for some reason sticks in my mind was "Small change got rained on with his own. 38"... 

     

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