The Burpster Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Well what an odd place for me to be in..... Lifelong 'no child zone' to stepfather in 12months.... eek. However, 9 yr old girl was fascinated by my bass noodling, started to become curious and then was asking 'to have a go' (she does already play woodwind)..... Well to be fair a PRS strung with flats probably isnt the best place to start, and she does have small hands for her size, so for her birthday we have just got her a Daisy rock debutante. I've heard others on here rave about these and I have even had a noodle in s shop once (and was pretty impressed), but I wasn't prepared for how good a 'made in China' bass was going to be. TBF it has now had a 'proper' set up, and plays well out of the box, although there is always room for improvement with a sub £200 bass. I have a Schaller 4D bridge on order as the BBOT is a 2 saddle affair which is pretty rubbish but functional, and when I do this I will level the frets and put lighter gauge strings on for her little fingers. I am however impressed by the wood, the finish and the output. It has a fascinating growl for a passive one pick up bass which we all like. If anyone is interested, once I have done the bits I'll put some pics on, however if anyone is umming and erring over 'if this is a good idea' for a youngster for xmas...... definate YES from me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ou7shined Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 [quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1322820351' post='1456134'] Is It the same as the one Panzee uses in ZingZillas?? [/quote] Dude you need to get out more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mart Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I thought Stuart Zender was the bassist in ZingZillas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ou7shined Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 [quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1322823925' post='1456215'] 4 kids mate can't get away from it [/quote] I know the feeling. I remember when the Tweenies theme tune had me reaching for the razor blades every day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardHimself Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 One of my friends has to work in the disney store for 16 hours a week, imagine how he must feel lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mart Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I turned that one around. For a while at any kind of practice I'd do a bit of the theme from "In the Night Garden". It was great - half the folks' faces would just turn white, and the other folk would just look puzzled and go "what's that?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ou7shined Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 [quote name='EdwardHimself' timestamp='1322835129' post='1456448'] One of my friends has to work in the disney store for 16 hours a week, imagine how he must feel lol. [/quote] He not overly H, A, PP, Y about it then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ou7shined Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 [quote name='mart' timestamp='1322835134' post='1456449'] I turned that one around. For a while at any kind of practice I'd do a bit of the theme from "In the Night Garden". It was great - half the folks' faces would just turn white, and the other folk would just look puzzled and go "what's that?" [/quote] That was one of my daughters much "loved" requests for me to play anytime she felt like bugging me while I was house-noodling... that and bah bah black fecking sheep... which quite frankly I felt was below my talents as a serious musician. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mart Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 [quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1322836355' post='1456469'] That was one of my daughters much "loved" requests for me to play anytime she felt like bugging me while I was house-noodling... that and bah bah black fecking sheep... which quite frankly I felt was below my talents as a serious musician. [/quote] I'm still working on bah bah black sheep - anybody got the tab for the middle bit? Oh wait, this isn't talkbass, is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Daisy Rocks are great, although my stardust elite bass is [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Daisy-Rock-Elite-Bass-/270861119091?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3f1094ae73"]on ebay[/url] at the moment as I have too many basses and not enough room or money. I'm kind of hoping it won't sell though. My daughters also have three daisy rocks between them - another bass the same as mine a pink daisy electric and a lilac wildwood acoustic guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFRC Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 a friend has a giant purple heart bass. It's a short scale P bass with a heart shaped body and sounds pretty good! It was funny when church ran out of bass players and found a guy and the only bass he could borrow was it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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