I recently rescued a bass guitar from a skip, a 1982 Westone thunder 1
which I can tell in its day was well loved and probably Gig’d with. Surprisingly it doesn’t need a lot of work to get it back up to playing condition again.
but I’ve noticed that it has an E string in place of the A string so its
E
E
D
G
but tuned correctly
E, (A,) D, G
was this some old school was of getting a better sound back in the 80’s/90’s or just something that a Westie player would do.