tauzero

You only move up one room. Just don't bother unpacking.

When I were a lad, I found those impossible to tune to. I could probably manage it now.

I don't understand the logic. If you bought it for the sound, why do you want to change the sound by replacing the pickups?

When I started, I'd tune to the piano in the house. In a band, we'd take somebody's guitar as the reference and tune to it (can't remember how the reference was established) or, if we were rehearsing in a rehearsal room at school, tune to the piano. Then electronic tuners came in at consumer prices when I was in my early 20s (the ones with a real meter at first) and I never looked back.

I bought a Shuker Uberhorn fretless last year which turned out to have a duff truss rod - in a way it was a blessing, as I took it to Jon who is almost finished rebuilding it with a new fingerboard and truss rod and a scale length revised from 35" to a tad over 34". Hoping to pick it up next week. OTOH, the Barcus 6-string fretless I got for a pretty good price (IIRC it was below the original starting price) is great. Incidentally, the ludicrous fan-fret Megatar didn't sell last time out and it's back again. If you want a straight 12-string tapper, fine, but all Megatar/Stick tunings that I've found have the six bass-side strings with the lowest string closest to the centre of the fretboard, completely obviating the point of a fan fret. You'd need chevron frets to make sense of it.

And bought back, and now is getting rid of again.

Don't forget that there's a buyer's premium which with VAT comes to a tad over 25%. And the seller's premium is similar, so the seller actually pockets about 50% of what the buyer pays out. And people moan about Ebay charge.

Which one of the dozen or so? I can't help but think of an impressionist (can't remember who) who used to do Jimmy Savile saying "Showaddywaddy". That's a bit offputting.

Do you mean they're the base version of the full-power band?

Isn't using a fretted Jazz instead of a fretless Stingray enough of a difference?

I've made one of these. I'm still not sure exactly why, haven't decided on a use for it yet. To decode the keypresses, I'd use a MM74C922 encoder which will generate a 4-bit number depending on which of 16 buttons is pressed so you don't have to try to connect 13 switches to the Pico. Then you need to connect the switches between the X and Y connections like so: X 1 2 3 4 Y 1 C C# D D# 2 E F F# G 3 G# A A# B 4 C Fn1 Fn2 Fn3 That gives you 0 for C, 1 for C#, etc. As far as the challenge goes, it's difficult to say. Strict observation would give a Tier 2 fail on purchase of the MidiMuso kit, as that's where the intent to create a MIDI controller manifests itself in a purchase. Up till then you could have just been building a Mandelbrot display https://www.instructables.com/Mandelbrot-Set-on-Pi-Pico-ILI9341/.

And no taking your wife, either, in case she tries to outdo your girlfriend.

No, because it is you who committed the act.

One must consider two factors - the act itself, and any premeditation. In this case, there was no premeditation, so a prima facie case fails if that was the sole criterion. However, there is the act itself, and in this case, it was perpetrated not by the (self) accused but by his girlfriend (whether with or without the knowledge of his wife), without any direct solicitation by the accused and apparently without his intention being to cause the purchase. I think a caution would be appropriate, and congratulations on the choice of girlfriend.