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  1. Rosie C
    Especially back in the day making round-backed lutes. I'd love to make something like this, but my woodworking skills extend only about as far as putting up a batten for a curtain rail!
  2. Rosie C
    Indeed, by Jarred Cooper!
  3. Rosie C
    It was not King of Kings, Lord of Lords. Nor was it King of Kings, the King of Glory Comes. In fact it was King of Kings, Majesty
  4. Rosie C
    'tis indeed! After services, as people are milling for coffee, our band leader has a habit of choosing one of the hymns and playing it again but in a different time signature, or swung, just to keep us on our toes! No jazz today though, we had violin and 'cello instead of cornet.
  5. Rosie C
    My own understanding is that in addition to repairs and setup of instruments, a luthier actually makes instruments too. I'm guessing the word comes from 'lute' in the deep and distant past?
  6. Rosie C
    Our three core band members (keys, cornet, bass) each have the organ/piano book of "Hymns Old and New" (the green book). The congregation have the book of words to go with so that's 80% of what we play. But there's a printed sheet for each week with the readings and a suggested hymn, and that's when it gets interesting. The three of us also play in a big band together, so we're reasonably good at improvising something together.
  7. Rosie C
    Oh Worship the King is the only one I already know. Our version of "Do Not Be Afraid" is in Kevin Mayhew's green "Hymns Old and New: Anglican Version". I'm taking a punt on "King of Kings" being King of Kings (Lord of Lords) from Kevin Mayhew's orange "Complete Anglican Hymns: Old and New". But there's a version in Graham Kendrick's "The Source" too.
  8. Rosie C
    I've just finished preparing for tomorrow's service. Of the 5 hymns, 4 are new, so it should be particularly good experience. O Worship the King O Let the Son of God Enfold you Do Not Be Afraid King of Kings O Worship the Lord
  9. Rosie C
    I have the same one! Excellent value for what they cost.
  10. Rosie C
    My favourite bass line is from "Bare Necessities" - one of the first big band bass lines I learned on double bass. It's kind of iconic in its way.
  11. Rosie C
    We have a kind of Blackmore's Night band doing folk rock-and renaissance music. We have a keyboard player who joins us for larger gigs, but for practice and smaller gigs I've been chasing this idea of harpsichord on a backing track. We're lucky to have a Kawai electric piano in our practice space with a USB slot for loading MIDI It's a bit heavy to take gigging though, unless we have roadies and a Luton with a tail lift 😉
  12. Rosie C
    I wanted to use it as an alternative to backing tracks in our performances. It apparently has a feature to do live beat matching so we could give it a harpsichord MIDI file and it could play out to trigger signal from our drummer. Too steep a learning curve for me though, easier to persuade the drummer to play to a click track 😉
  13. Rosie C
    Reaper is good. Logic is good. Ableton Live was the one which defeated me - utterly incomprehensible to me!
  14. Rosie C
    That's a fair point. I bought mine during lockdown from Amazon USA and yes it was almost as much as my Squier had cost from my local guitar shop.
  15. Rosie C
    I've nothing to compare with as I've only bought a Fender neck. But I liked it - I got a Fender pau ferro fretless jazz neck to convert my fretted Squier jazz bass. It wasn't just bolt on - the fretboard wood was somewhat unfinished, and the fret markings were slightly proud, so I had to spend some time sanding it smooth. Also the holes for the tuning machines were a size larger than the original, so there was some work there too. Overall though, once the work was done I'm very pleased with it.
  16. Rosie C
    Thanks Simon! I might need friends to help lift it into my practice space, but once it's there it can stay there. I've always fancied a Marshall stack, but lately Trace Elliot has the edge for me I think.
  17. Rosie C
    Every time I see a photo of Trace Elliot kit I inch inevitably towards buying some myself...
  18. Rosie C
    It must be, and yet it seems there's very little around.
  19. Rosie C
    I have a power pack, but I quite like my battery Orange amp with its internal battery - apart from not having to carry extra things, I like that there's no 240v if I'm playing outdoors.
  20. Rosie C
    Thanks Bill!
  21. Rosie C
    My current bass guitar / double bass amp is an Orange Crush 25B. Enough for practice and playing in church. I also have an Orange Acoustic 30 which is battery powered and I use for octave-mandolin. I very much like it being cordless, very handy for playing outdoors, or just not having to find a mains socket and run an extension lead at church. Battery bass amps seem a bit thin on the ground and quite expensive. I'm wondering whether a battery powered active speaker could do the job? Particularly it only has to be as loud/bassy as my 25W practice amp.
  22. Rosie C
    that is a thing of beauty!
  23. Rosie C
    A Zoom recorder, all the better to record my bass with and best of all, my sister bought me a "folk singers almanac" with songs for each month and for each festival in the year - this is bass related as I'll end up recording them with multi-tracked bass guitar.
  24. Rosie C
    Surely the photo should be ageing horribly, while you retain a youthful countenance?
  25. Rosie C
    I've played in orchestra, brass band, big band. When I first started playing folk-rock in pubs, I was conscious of using a music stand, but I've just accepted I am the sort of musician who uses a music stand. I do memorise the lyrics and guitar chords, but for the other stuff - the band use written music. Even the drummer sometimes! 😉
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