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[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1326182709' post='1493288'] I've always pulled my castored stack. You can get over small obstacles more easily. Friends should be advised that the castors are to save your back, not for them to fulfil their go-karting fantasies... [/quote] I'd guess it be a good idea to use two castors which turn and two which don't (there must be a better way to put this but I hope you get my point)

I still have my grand mother's squeeze box from 1936, a lovely hohner liliput in Bflat Eflat. It's the only part of the family heritage that survived world war II as my grandma was a refugee with the kids and the squeeze box. Then my dad played it and then me, on many occasions, settings, street corners, continents, boats, vans and in in tunnels, tents, pubs, under bridges, in the djungle, the desert and on the seven seas. It's now most of the time in its case since the tuning has become unbearable, and the whole instrument being in the state you can imagine after 3 genereations of shantiemen. Don't have any pictures though...

Since there seem to be many people with a folk background, can you show us the oldest piece of kit that still sounds great? you grand ma's squeeze box, your grand dad's guitar? The world's oldest ballaphone? The most worn busking folk tool? The antique banjo with the signatures of all the prior players? Player's instruments breathing history? Stuff so f***ed up you'd just wish to also put your hands on that lovely old bitch of an instrumen?

Just reading this thread, funny how "some stupid questions" lead to such informing content. It might be worth a sticky!

Cheers Kraken my No.1 bass at the time, it sends you greetings from Berlin!

Well I started a thread on this somewhere else, but this seems the appropriate place! Who has got one, and what's the impression? Can you point out some recordings done with that? Isn't it a great compromise, as I suppose you could always use a capo and use it as a guitar, or to do bass lines? Anyone ever used one? Any baritone-guitar porn?

Diatonic squeezebox: family tradition (Plattdeutsch shanties & stuff) Started on guitar, then switched to sitar after a longer stay and studies in India, which I used in various Berlin based modal jazz setups, while jamming the folk circuit on the squeezebox whenever somebody played Eflat and Bflat Then busking the UK with squeezebox and wash tub bass, started gigging regularly Then double bass and now bass guitars. I really love using all available instruments though my skills vary. Can't play any wind instruments, don't know why really. Now playing fretted in a rock band and fretless with a Danish folk singer.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1325781244' post='1487601'] Baritone guitars are tuned the same as a normal guitar but usually either a perfect fourth or perfect fifth lower. [/quote] So that'll be BEADFB am I right? - Suppose, you could do as you please, but somehow a low B like a 7-string guitar? That should fit quite nicely with a 5string bass?

Has anyone ever used one? How are they tuned? Like a 5er but an octave higher? Did you find a way to use them in a musical setting? How do they compare to Irish bouzouki? Not so sure if this is the right forum though apologies (there's no baritonechat.co.uk afaik)

Hey wait, this is on guitars not basses!

LOL really that all these people who can't handle a proper bass = DB on this forum actually think they don't play guitar already... come on, not that different altogether - be honest! But I do agree there's not much to say about guitars since if you know bass, you know guitar don't you? I mean, every single band I play bass in, I know more about guitars and play them better than any of the guitarists I play with, sad as it is guitar is for beginners - this is a pro forum - can't imagine anything on guitars worth posting here! though I stick to my opinion that guitar related threads should be fine but stuck in a "other instruments than bass" sub forum visible only for members.

We could have a forum for other instruments that's hidden from non-registered users and where only those are allowed to post who have already posted elsewhere

agree - "top slot" is usually about 10pm, anything later is a bummer.

love the one on the drum. could you print some out and send them to me please.

Playing last is one thing; playing late another. Make sure you play asap after the band before you has finished, and make sure to talk to the organiser to kick their ass to finish in time - no encores for the support!!. Really crap if you come one after everyone's left for the last tube. Make sure you get a good compere to announce you'll be playing, the other bands can also do that (recommend their crowd to stay). We used to always play last since we were that type of band (Lonesome Cowboys from Hell). Nice thing about playing late is you can expect the crowd to be pissed, so try to be louder than the other bands, play a bit wilder and make it short and impressive. Don't play anything in minor. Play a singalong, a drinking song, some punk rock or something like that at the end. You will be invited again. After soundcheck, get a good meal, then listen to the other bands. If you have merchandise, chat up some girls and tell them you'll be tossing free t-shirts to the ones who dance in the front. Works.

J'aime bien que basschat s'internationalise de plus en plus... Bienvenue - herzlich willkommen

Maybe worth asking somebody here http://www.geba-online.de/ German association of bass players - lots of pro db players there

Seems fair to say the fishman is the more versatile piece of kit (xlr out ground shift etc) and great for getting the best possible sound, while the K&K is just amazing if your focus is more on the stage performance side of things since it's fixed to the belt & comes with an extra channel for the finger board to amplify the slap sounds. I'm using EBS microbass II which is also really cool IMO with the two channels and allows for some mad distorted sounds. In any case make sure you also get a tuner that mutes since you sometimes really need that mute / kill option in case of feedback.

Well it seems the guys who run Germany's largest musician forum (musiker-board.de) must have some connections to thomann, since they had a thread, where anyone who was already registered since November could post a christmas wish from the thomann shop up to 1000 Euro, and three of these won their wish... of 1200 who did post. I was wondering if that could be an idea for basschat for next year. Cheers guys I didn't win, .

Had a look in the book shop today - it's really rather a short text, since it's a monologue for stage. Maybe someone doubling up actor / DB player could find a great gig here

Well no, only in German, and a good while back. Glad to hear though there are quality translations, as I find a lot of wit and beauty usually gets lost in translation (e.g. Hermann Hesse, or the untranslatable Goethe) - happens the other way 'round as well, of course.

On that audition the other night, somebody suggested I tune my bass. Hell no, I thought, I could damage the machine heads

The Parfume, yes, the Double Bass, no.... will fetch a copy to read on the train ride to xmas.

My first gig: me and two other guys doing civil serve (instead of German army) at the local YMCA organised a band night and decided to perform together at the end, to make everyone leave. We had no practise and couldn't play, so decided to make it 100% rock'n'roll show which we did, like flying changeover on the drum kit, playing the bass with drum sticks, noodling impossible solos as fast as we could, etc. After which people came up to us saying we've been better than any of the other bands... Taught me something about rock performance... Great fun, great night, fight and all... I was 19 at the time and it was early 90ies

Hi guys I confess to never having seen it, but it's been one of the most successful plays in Germany from when it came out in 1984/5 and continues to influence the public's view on the instrument; it still is very popular on German stages. Craving to see it. It's a one-man play focused around a frustrated double bass player, by Patrik Süskind (who also wrote The Parfume). Anybody seen it? Has it been staged in the UK? I find French and Italian videos on the 'tube. Here is a German one, but there are many.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sZtm4DabSg Book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Double-Bloomsbury-Classic-Patrick-Suskind/dp/0747537232/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324030314&sr=8-1 Cheers J.