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I don't think I've had any single lesson that stands out as a major contributor - probably the biggest push was playing in the house band at an open mic night so I became quite adept at working out chord sequences and grace/passing notes on the fly. I think the most useless lesson was at school. Dr Roy Massey, MBE, head of music, was evaluating that year's intake of pupils for membership of the choir. In turn, he would play a note on the piano to us and we each had to sing the note. It came to my turn. "Ding" "Laaaa". "Dang" "Laaaa". "Dong" "Laaaa". "Zero," he said, "you have an ear like an old boot". Words that have stayed with me for 55 years.

I'm surprised that that one has hung around for so long (must be 18 months or more) given the way that it oozes craftsmanship, or at least one word starting "cra" anyway. I think he buys in Teles and Strats in pairs and swaps the necks.

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So you don't want to play the White Power then.

Trustpilot gives them a 4.3 out of 5 rating. @Dood, what do you do to make couriers and financial institutions hate you? 😁

You probably shouldn't look at the HTML. Proper 20th century. We don't need no steenkin' CSS.

You might find some useful information in chapter 16 of https://web.mit.edu/6.101/www/reference/op_amps_everyone.pdf - it's somewhat above my head.

Stung in what way? I've used Wise a couple of times to transfer money, most recently to GR Bass in Italy, with no problems.

In English, 8/64" = 3.175mm, 7/64" = 2.778mm, 6/64" = 2.38mm. CBA with these ludicrous foreign measurements.

Possibly not very legal. And they look very very vulnerable, with being so long and rigid - there are some things for which this would be a Good Thing, but a wireless bug that appears to have taken Viagra seems destined to have quite a short life.

Just to add - the switch on the return is actually one bent bit of metal in the jack socket resting on another bent bit of metal in the jack socket. When a plug is inserted, the top BBOM is lifted off the bottom one and the circuit broken. The surfaces that touch each other will gradually oxidise and eventually break the circuit. Inserting a plug will disturb the contact patch enough to start things going again but if you can easily get into the amp then contact cleaner on the return jack is the best way to go.

Not even strings?

I just lifted my Jamstik off the stand (it was hidden behind something else) and the reason for the familiarity of that flourish round the strap button becomes clear. I'd done some research when I first got this, and it's based on an Asmuse Leaf. However, although they make basses, they're all headless, which is a Good Thing in some ways but doesn't help with an ID on the subject at hand.

My mistake, I've just never used it.

At the going down of the sun we will remember it.

Not novation, Ovation. There's more of the six-string ones floating around (as @Mykesbass says, the Breadwinner), can't remember ever seeing a bass one before. The seller really doesn't deserve to get much for it, using the AnotveryI description rather than writing one him/herself, which could include words like "rare" and "almost unique", and perhaps L@@K in the auction title like every truly informed seller does.

I've known managers to take the diary with them too. Last time was a long time ago, can't remember if we actually turned up and found we were double booked with the replacement manager's selection of band or whether we found it out before turning up.

I take it you don't want to just swap the necks?

On the battery life front, as an experiment I didn't recharge my Lekato WS-90 after doing the last gig (2.5 hours left switched on), and since then they've done three open mic nights (2 hours left switched on every time) and managed an hour of rehearsal before the transmitter threw up its little hands. About 9.5 hours then.

Mine was fine - I did buy it from PMT Birmingham and they did have an in-house guitar tech so it's possible it had been adjusted.

"Cut the kids" was right, it's an emo band.

Do you buy Xmas gifts for all your musical equipment?

An app (and website) that I discovered recently when tracking something from AliExpress has proved extremely useful for, well, everything. 17Track (https://www.17track.net/en) takes tracking numbers from hundreds of different courier companies, including Royal Mail, Evri, Yodel, DPD, DHL, etc and provides the tracking information for them. It does autodetection of the carrier from the tracking number format, which is almost always successful. It means you can have all your incoming items tracked in one place rather than going from app to app. As I sometimes have half a dozen things coming, it's very handy.

Tube/microphone emulation with clean tone. It's been a very long time since I used mine, must have another play with it. See https://mediadl.musictribe.com/media/PLM/data/docs/P0293/M_BE_0709-AAK_ADI21_WW.pdf