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Photo 2 shows the whole instrument including the HB style headstock although you don't get to see the rear of the headstock.

It's a Variax, that's how it works. Models various bass sounds.

It's also where I bought my longest-standing guitar, an Eko Ranger 6, in the early 1980s.

The Sei fretless or the Antoniotsai. Partly because they're the closest to hand.

It started as Express Music when Pete who worked in the music shop off Mell Square took it on. The current owner, Sam, is a rather good player of the Novax Charlie Hunter guitar, and is tuiting someone I accompany in the open mic evenings over the road in the British Legion.

It's been happily sitting in the corner not generating random notes for about an hour and a half so I'll call it cured. The lack of resizing is a bit of a pain but not insuperable. Is there any chance that the keyboard along the bottom will be changed to better look like a piano keyboard at some future date?

And I should add, Eric has answered my ticket, there has been a software and firmware update, and it seems to be behaving - I'm leaving it running for a couple of hours and if there's no random notes in that time, I'll pronounce it cured.

PS. If it's any comfort, everyone on Basschat will be pointing at me and laughing.

Yes, sorry about being intemperate but the lack of resizing was a serious frustration. And as far as that lack of resizing goes, I had problems installing a previous version of the editor because it didn't like being inside another folder within Program Files, and also raised the issue of resizing. In an email dated 2023/07/27, part of Tom Ferguson's response (after providing the solution) was "The window resize and screen resolution issues is a known bug that we've addressed in the Mac version of the Editor, and we will be porting that over to the Windows Editor in an update that is scheduled to come out next month." So should I have expected the resizing to be present in a release 18 months after that response? Also, I'm not sure if there is an issue with the latest firmware. Since updating, I keep getting random keypresses (nothing touching the keys, a note just comes on randomly). Happens every few minutes. Didn't happen before the firmware update. I have submitted a ticket.

There's good descriptions on almost everything on the website - I'm just hoping that the description for the Conklin 7-string is a placeholder. As a sample, "An amplified electronic sound emanates from this Conklin bass guitar, caused by the Bartolini active pickups with volume." https://bassbros.co.uk/product/conklin-groove-tools-gt7-bill-dickens-7-string/ Not that I'm in the market for anything more than 5 strings - I already don't use my 6-strings.

If it can all be taken off with a sponge, soap, and water, how would it hold up with being sweated over at a gig?

Even stranger, he's ended the "6-string bass guitar" listing due to an error in the listing and relisted it with exactly the same wording (or at least it looks like it, I haven't done a word by word comparison). Old: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/405531257322 New: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/405531884808 Tineye didn't come up with any matches on a reverse image search, nor did a quick manual search for "warwick thumb 6" images (that rug is distinctive).

All of mine have Schallers on.

There's also a guitar shop.

Also on as a "6 string bass guitar" with the Warwick name confined to the description. It's the same bass, unless the flaming in the maple is photowotsit. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/405531257322 Pics are better and it/they are collection only. Seems odd but not necessarily a scam. Almost zero feedback but everyone has to start somewhere.

I've just remembered with the tales of people pulling out with not a lot of notice - I was in a trio which expanded to a 4-piece with a slide guitarist coming in. We were doing two gigs a week apart, and one rehearsal in between. So we did the first gig, then went to rehearse, and the BL mentioned a couple of minor things to the drummer, not by any means in an offensive of hurtful way. The drummer took umbrage at this and simply packed up and disappeared, leaving us a little bemused. As it happened, the slide guitarist could also play drums so he took over for the gig (impressively, he had no drum rehearsal for it but acquitted himself well) and subsequent gigs too, plus some of the recording of the CD that was partway through being done.

Since taking that, have you cut the string ends off or poked them down inside the tuners?

Thanks, that was the solution (scaled to 150%). Completely overlooked that.

And this is what the current version looks like when run on my laptop: That is the full screen shot. Can't resize it. So it's unusable on the laptop (1920x1080 screen). Nobody thought to test it on something that size? The "keyboard" along the bottom for note selection is horrible. You do have my sympathy as in the past I've inherited some pretty horrible code and I know what it's like. However, I had an email about the issue with size telling me it would be fixed in a couple of days and I haven't seen a new version turn up yet.

When I made a grille for the Plenty cab, I used perforated aluminium. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/362491694497?var=631653707743

That's what sticky back plastic was invented for.

. Load of rubbish

I've just started using Alpine Musicsafe Pro plugs and they seem pretty good. The band isn't overwhelmingly loud, so the silver filters are fine. The sound reduction seems well balanced. I do have another couple of pairs that I can't remember the origins of which seem to filter out highs a bit more than lows - usable (I used them last night for some reason, I'd got the Alpines with me). And for motorcycling I use the Howard Leight MAX earplugs, which I haven't tried at a gig but I suspect wouldn't be ideal.

I'm using a Nokia T20 which is OK. There are a few Chinese tablets from Oppo, Honor, and Xiaomi which would be worth looking at. Also the Samsung Tab A9+ comes in at around £180, so a bit more expensive than those but gets good reviews. I may treat myself to one.

Quality is very variable but open mics generally offer a friendly audience. Some players improve through playing in front of audiences - Mrs Zero was one of those, when I took her to her first open mic night to do some John Denver standards she was rubbish but I knew she was better than that, took her along to the next one and she was much better, and she finished up fronting a rock band. However, it is a two-edged sword - one guy who turns up sporadically to a couple of open mic nights should have the mic closed (his guitar playing is OK though).