Rosie C

I joined my local gym. Not something I EVER thought I'd do, but my doc gave me a choice of meds or NHS part-funded gym membership. The strange thing was after a few weeks I started to really enjoy it and missed it if I couldn't work out for a few days. Nothing too strenuous - treadmill, cycle machine, and some weights and there's big TVs to watch so the time goes quickly. My formal exercise goals include "carrying my bass amp" The NHS bit was quite important for me - I have a special coach who went through my medical history and designed a suitable programme and keeps tabs on my progress.

Despite these days of Speakon, I still use orange twin-core mains cable to make my speaker cables, just I use Speakon plugs now

Shine a Little Love - Electric Light Orchestra

Invisible Man - Queen

My fretless jazz has a PF fretboard and I like it. When it arrived the wood did have a dry open texture feel to it. I applied a series of fine sand paper and waxed it and I'm very happy with the result.

Indeed! Before I bought mine I didn’t believe it would sound as good as it does and hooked up with an old band mate to try his before I ordered. No, the band leader hasn’t heard it yet but I’ll take it to the next service we do 😈

I mentioned the U-bass to the band leader in our church band and didn't sense any enthusiasm at all, yet it sounds awesome!

I have the Kala 'striped ebony'. At the time it was the cheapest Kala model in Thomann's range, though they don't seem to list it anymore. Not my photo, but it looks like this:

They weigh virtually nothing, but I'm happy to weigh mine for you. I've only had it about two weeks, but I love it. Somehow it defies the laws of physics - such a deep bass sound for such a small thing. I'm gigging it on Tuesday at a Morris dancing thing as a substitute for double bass while a leg injury heals. EDIT: 2.6 lbs

I had one of those from about 2001 to 2022. It did its job. I donated it to a local music school and as far as I know it's still going.

Our renaissance-folk-rock duo went to a local open-mic on Monday - the first we've done for a couple of years. We did a medieval tune on recorder and bongos, then a Blackmore's Night song with octave-mandolin accompaniment. It was well received. Of the other acts my highlights were an American over on holiday doing some folk, a lady playing John Playford tunes on a melodeon type instrument, and a couple of younger singer-songwriter guitarists.

I'm reliving my 1980s with this Clannad album...

Don't have one of those either

Thanks for the clarification! Sadly I do not have 10 x £300 basses to sell

BTW, the 25B Crush amp you sold me is still going strong - and gets gigged every couple of weeks

p.s. I see the buying/selling advice includes "there is a fair use limit in place of 10 listings per month" - which is not unreasonable. 👍

Thanks Mr.Burrito.

I am wondering whether there's a limit in the to posting for sale adverts? We're moving house soon and there's 20 years of stuff to clear out!