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[quote name='xgsjx' post='1276793' date='Jun 21 2011, 10:48 AM']I knew middle eastern music used 1/4 tones (thanks to a Yamaha thing that I think replaced the DX7 & I can't remember the name of it, that brought this to my attention) & it's also used in Greek music. I thought the reason behind this was one of 2 things: 1, they had poor intonation on the fretless instruments & 2, didn't tune up properly on the fretted (& non stringed instruments that had 1/4 tones was made by a crap luthier) [/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=142240&hl="]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=142240&hl=[/url]

[quote name='xgsjx' post='1276793' date='Jun 21 2011, 10:48 AM']I knew middle eastern music used 1/4 tones (thanks to a Yamaha thing that I think replaced the DX7 & I can't remember the name of it, that brought this to my attention) & it's also used in Greek music. I thought the reason behind this was one of 2 things: 1, they had poor intonation on the fretless instruments & 2, didn't tune up properly on the fretted (& non stringed instruments that had 1/4 tones was made by a crap luthier) [/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=142240&hl="]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=142240&hl=[/url]

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='1277182' date='Jun 21 2011, 03:30 PM']You're wrong, of course. This kind of total travesty has never happened to me. Why? because [b]every time I sit on the end of my bed and pick up my bass, I check my tuning[/b]. It's easy enough, red means out, green means in.[/quote] Hands up, it happened to me. I started playing - without checking my tuning - at 4.30 this morning, and the neighbours started banging on the wall. So it's not just bass players who notice these things.

[quote name='mcgraham' post='1275743' date='Jun 20 2011, 11:46 AM']Sorry Bilbo, I didn't quite catch that... could you say again for the avoidance of doubt?[/quote] I think he said something about learning to read tab...

Simple: it's got one too many strings.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1272286' date='Jun 17 2011, 12:14 AM']I hadn't seen her before but that Jenny Lee Lindberg is super hot ... I'm struggling with the fact that she bears more than a passing resemblance to my sister in law. Dr. Freud, patient waiting.[/quote] You are Ryan Giggs and I claim my five pounds.

[quote name='bremen' post='1271619' date='Jun 16 2011, 03:07 PM'][b][color="#FF0000"] FAKE[/color][/b][/quote] You got an issue with this then you come and talk to me kiddo.

[quote]Has been screwed on and off several times[/quote] Haven't we all?

[quote name='JamieCooper91' post='1270642' date='Jun 15 2011, 08:40 PM']Melissa Auf Der Maur! What a girl.[/quote] I've neither seen her nor heard her, but her name is hot!

Oh oh oh! I keep my RV4 at the guitarist's house for midweek rehearsals, and was looking for a fretless to keep it company. I just got a S/H Dean Slegdehammer (courtesy of BassChat marketplace) but might have held off if I'd seen this one coming. After a fair amount of tinkering, I'm really liking my RV4 now - except for the tone controls... "is it just me", or are others finding that they only seem to be of any use for about 10% of their travel?

Wednesday lunchtime bump.

[quote name='Conan' post='1269896' date='Jun 15 2011, 12:01 PM']I've always had a bit of a soft spot for Tina Weymouth.... but that's another story.[/quote] +1

[quote name='Doddy' post='1268346' date='Jun 14 2011, 10:47 AM']An accidental is a note that is not in key. Say you are in the Key of G....if you see an F natural,that would be an accidental,because in that key you would normally have an F#. Or,in the key of C,any sharp or flat note written would be an accidental.[/quote] Or more strictly, a note that is not in the key [b]signature [/b](or corrects a prior accidental back to the scheme of the sig). So in G we have F# in the sig. If we modulated to B flat without changing the sig, we'd use accidentals to indicate the F naturals, B flats and E flats. Or consider a lot of contemporary classical music where key sigs aren't used at all, in which case every sharp or flat is an accidental.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1268827' date='Jun 14 2011, 04:17 PM']Pretty though.[/quote] But evidently not a Bass Guitar, as this the wrong forum!?

Yammy BB425.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' post='1264146' date='Jun 10 2011, 05:00 PM']Any chance of seeing some more pics of the bass? I'm intrigued now, a passive Stingray... [/quote] Is that another one of those "active-to-passive conversion" jobs?

[quote name='MythSte' post='1263964' date='Jun 10 2011, 02:24 PM']I played a couple at the bass guitar show in London and 100% agree with machines. Really substantial feeling basses. Go for it![/quote] +1 Some reservations as to whether the 1024 is worth the price hike over the 424... see posts passim.

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='1258758' date='Jun 6 2011, 06:54 PM']^ Just like the little brother of my Century 6 (which will be up for sale very soon due to an incoming Century Signature!)… Lovely bass. The Century body shape really does does it for me! Shep[/quote] And it's a constant struggle not to order a matching fretted model to be its brother or sister!

My Century Standard 4 Fretless...

Bought this baby [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=129753"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=129753[/url], and very nice it is too - many thanks!

Thanks guys, I'll check those out.

Hi, Does anyone have a recommendation for someone in the London/Southern Home Counties area to level or possibly replace a fingerboard on a fretless? Ta! Richard

[quote name='lowdown' post='1254190' date='Jun 2 2011, 04:17 PM']Music is not just about Bass.[/quote] Burn the heretic!