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That would have been a 1976 Hayman 40/40 for me, and I know when it was made because I made it. Sadly, I've sold it since then.

Although you do need an appointment for them.

There are reviews on the linked page, and a few of them say it's a bit quiet.

At the last gig we did, my tablets (main and spare) kept disconnecting from the external router. I switched to the internal wireless and all was well. So don't forget that's always a backup option. I was only a couple of metres from the X-Air so range wasn't an issue.

Does it play like butter get the butter warm enough to spread easily?

I've not had any problems with customer attitude. No appointment necessary, though I would be inclined to give them a ring and make sure they'll be open (can't see any reason they wouldn't be though).

Paul Tutmarc invented it in the 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar#History Although he might not have made one in 1946, given how few he made.

https://www.tilswall.co.uk/product/soldering-station/ does the job.

One at least, who gives it 5/5 but comments that he'd like to see a more powerful unit for bass.

For 1957, that gives a Fender Precision, Gibson EB-1, Kay K162, Danelectro Longhorn, Rickenbacker 4000, and Hofner violin bass. Not sure what the least worst option is, there's certainly none that I'd love to own.

I keep telling everyone that headstocks are inventions of Satan. In the interest of remaining in control, I simply go to sleep.

I'll be interested to see how this goes - I've been thinking along similar lines myself.

I've got this one: https://www.tilswall.com/products/soldering-station For my purposes, some PCBs and Vero boards, some cables, some connections to jack sockets and switches, it's excellent.

Carol Kaye.

Have you considered a full scale bass rather than a short scale? You're looking at this from a guitarist's perspective, they're different instruments and using a full scale bass might help reinforce that with your subconscious. From my bassist's perspective, when I want to record some guitar parts, I don't string a 6-string bass with guitar strings, I use a guitar.

Hohner B2V - headless cricket bat so very compact and easy to tuck away somewhere in the transport, doesn't need a stand to hold it, and the B2AV can be switched to passive if you can't find a B2V or decide that an active with a passive option is even better.

"Dance the night away" is probably the easiest song I've ever learnt (two chords all the way through) and it's one of the ones I loathe the most. Not sure if I ever played it on a five string, but on a four string with 26 frets I just kept going up the neck until I got to the end, then came back down again, rinse and repeat. Otherwise I'd probably have died of boredom.

There was me thinking one had to do something clever, whereas apparently simply replacing one syllable in a band name with "dad" fulfils the criterion. The Dadles The Rolling Dads Pink Dad Dad Rex Dad Leppard Dad Crimson Dadesis Dad Theater

Is it? I thought it just meant your hands would get slimy from playing it. I was tempted to put "plays like butter" myself, but that should really go into the "advert cliches" thread which was around a while ago.

I learnt to play it wrong (in the solo) fifty years ago and I tried but failed to play it right, so wrong it remains. I'm fine on the verse.

So do we, which is why "All right now" is still in the list (although it doesn't seem to get into the set these days).

A P with flats is the only bass you ever need

Fleetwood Dad Green Dad Spencer Daddies Group Palice Bryan Dadams DADDA

I remember Jonathan King once saying that the average song structure is verse, chorus, verse, chorus, clever bit, verse, chorus. I find it starts becoming difficult when it steps outside that general rule of thumb - for example "Place your hands" which is all over the place and which you have to remember bit by bit. I also found some Green Day songs tricky to remember as the chord sequences were somewhat weird and then got followed by outros with completely unrelated chords.

Ditto. I got to 50 seconds and gave up.