doctor_of_the_bass Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Heheh I might buy this so I can say my bass has the most strings on it: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/15-STRING-BASS-PERCUSSIVE-CHAPMAN-STICK-TECHNIQUE_W0QQitemZ180249836567QQihZ008QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/15-STRING-BASS-PERCU...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 [quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='212803' date='Jun 4 2008, 10:18 PM']Heheh I might buy this so I can say my bass has the most strings on it: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/15-STRING-BASS-PERCUSSIVE-CHAPMAN-STICK-TECHNIQUE_W0QQitemZ180249836567QQihZ008QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/15-STRING-BASS-PERCU...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url][/quote] I think an endorsement with a sting manufacturer is in order for keeping that thing on the road...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 what a disgusting looking instrument anythin over 7 strings is just daft for a bass, just isnt needed imo at all, sound samples that iv heard from such instruments just dont sound anythin like 'bass' to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 i'm with mbk on this...it's a fine exercise in 'how many strings can i get on one instrument' but a total waste of wood imho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB1 Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 MB1. SAD! Really.....Waste of a good tree!.....Great for pub gigs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor_of_the_bass Posted June 4, 2008 Author Share Posted June 4, 2008 I think its wonderful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ped Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Looks quite good fun to me!! Might as well go the whole hog! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass_ferret Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Waste of wood and strings. I've never got this ERB lark - get a stick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ped Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 I definitely wouldn't dare to try playing it in public (props to those who do and can) but I would really like to have a play with one. Why not? It doesn't hurt anyone (I don't think??) and that alone is better than doing other stuff like the hoovering - or ironing, before Ste_m3 gets at me again! ped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamster Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 If it came with a book of chord fingerings I might be interested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor_of_the_bass Posted June 4, 2008 Author Share Posted June 4, 2008 I'm currently in talks with my local plastic surgeon - we are going to graft on a couple more arms with extended fingers - then I can have some serious fun with it! I had to laugh when I saw it - Anyone remember that guy with the headless Schack 10 string, featured in Bassist mag many years ago!? Whew! N Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Here's where that object of delight probably came from: [url="http://stores.ebay.com/tropicalmoonmusic"]http://stores.ebay.com/tropicalmoonmusic[/url] Home to its hillbilly brothers & sisters, a variety of implausible, improbable & almost certainly downright unplayable inbred mutations. There's probably a left-handed, triple-neck version of the same thing in there somewhere. Jon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJA Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 yep, it's a Tennessee bass. check out this review of the 10-string version- [url="http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Electric+Bass/product/Tennessee/10+String+Bass/10/1"]http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews...tring+Bass/10/1[/url] ".......this is the biggest turd I've ever laid my hands on...." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 There was a music shop owner on one of the early morning "news" programmes on TV a few weeks ago with a six neck guitar that I think came from the same source. He claimed he'd sold it to an act where six people where going to play it at once. My favourites are the ones where they stick two unrelated necks together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machines Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Just so utterly pointless.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 [quote name='SJA' post='213261' date='Jun 5 2008, 03:10 PM']yep, it's a Tennessee bass. check out this review of the 10-string version- [url="http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Electric+Bass/product/Tennessee/10+String+Bass/10/1"]http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews...tring+Bass/10/1[/url] ".......this is the biggest turd I've ever laid my hands on...."[/quote] "Similar Products: Music Man StingRay" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnt Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Just one look at that bridge has me hurling. A touchstyle instrument needs individually-adjustable-[b]everything[/b] to work effectively. Someone should tell those Tennessee jokers that sticking "Professional" on something's name does not actually make it professional quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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allighatt0r Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 [quote]It will require an unorthodox playing technique[/quote] It will require a short sharp journey to a skip. It's ridiculous, I can sort of see the point of the Siamese necks, at least they look cool, would be a great talking point hanging off your wall, but this 15 string is stupid. The idea was probably nicked off the guy that made one on Youtube and get 5 colours of poo flamed out of him At least it seems like they were sensible enough to put in two truss-rods, although 3 wouldn't have been overkill... I heard a long while ago the string tension on a 4 string is something stupid like 70 pounds... If you listen carefully, you can hear this thing groaning in agony. It's even got P-bass styling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 [quote name='allighatt0r' post='213857' date='Jun 6 2008, 01:37 PM']The idea was probably nicked off the guy that made one on Youtube and get 5 colours of poo flamed out of him [/quote] That's precisely what it is. And the siamese-neck thing is a rip-off of this: [url="http://www.microphoneheaven.com/guitarbass/"]http://www.microphoneheaven.com/guitarbass/[/url] How we LOL'd when that first appeared. Seems they didn't quite get the joke down in Buttf***, Tennessee... J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanOwens Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 WTF!?!?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 If you tune all five to an open G, then play one Townsend sweep with a BIG plectrum, you could do the [i]Back To The Future[/i] thang! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB1 Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 [quote name='TheBrokenDoor' post='214229' date='Jun 7 2008, 10:21 AM'] WTF!?!?!?![/quote] MB1. Is it a Trouser Press? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul, the Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 wood+novelty= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJA Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 there's one of those 5-necks in the window of Macari's, Charing cross road. actually- they've gone and got a 6-neck one now! [url="http://www.macaris.co.uk/product_full.asp?productID=824&typeID=7&catID=1"]http://www.macaris.co.uk/product_full.asp?...D=7&catID=1[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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