BassTractor

With those plectra, it probably plays itself.

Renault Projet 900. Haven't read up on them, but it seems there was to be a V8 in that rear (won't work on Projet 900, won't work on Projet 901, won't work on ... .. but might work on Projet 911 😉). Different prototypes exist(ed), so you get to choose looks and colour. Give them a call. 😀 Back to the OP though, maybe it was thought of as an instrument for the rarity seekers or for the musician on a leash. The flipping doesn't seem problematic to me. Just sit down. Also, with two band members owning instruments like this, you at the very least can shift roles during songs and make a big point out of it, giving the audience a tiny chuckle. I can see how that could work in the right atmosphere.

Fantastic! I'm ordering. Only question is whether it will fit in my car.

Good thinking. Don't remember whether we too did this or just contemplated doing it, but I do remember we used a set of names depending on the music. Possibly not really an alter ego, but IIRC Ian Anderson told that in the old days they normally were allowed to play at each venue only once, so kept returning to venues by using many different band names - and I think that actually none of those was "Jethro Toe" (possibly Derek Lawrence's attempt to avoid paying for rights).

OK, some googling and we now have following rock bands: Æ is for Ændal Å is for Årabrot

Waidaminnet. If individual artists are allowed, we do have: Æ is for Æ. Yup.

Ø is for Østenfor Sol Sorry, can't remember ones for Æ or Å. ...but I did prolong the thread to at least some degree, didden I?

Oh! That's great! It actually made me appreciate the song more. Suddenly, that annoying (to me) insistant simplicity in the second down, second up in "Exit light" etc. seems to make sense when placed in this close harmony, whereas in the original, other voices comes in later, at "Take my hand". Love it. Thanks for posting!

@MacDaddy's pic: roughly 1 out of 3, but not all with individual names. @Dad3353's pic: nearly all, but stumped by a few. In my defence, I've had three centuries to learn the classical ones.

Yup! High density tonecopper without sudden bends. If you play really fast, like I do, you don't want some frequencies to lag due to angles and the like. But we digress. This was about ToneTurtle[TM].

Never mind the sceptics. They've read chapter 1 in Physics 101 and think they know it all. Similar to you with your pickguard, I hear clear differences with or without a tuner, and wonder: what's the best tonetuner?

My interest in chart music was aroused when I was aroused... ...and slowly developed the vague notion that "Penderecki", "Xenakis" and "my book on Flemish Renaissance music" maybe were not the greatest of pick-up lines.

Yeah, but it goes deeper than that. @Hutton's starting this topic to soften us was a stroke of genius.

Might it have to do something with gun oil, or what you call it? But yeah, the foam should've been chosen to withstand that as well.

This seems to colour the whole thread: incorrect assumptions leading to certainty long before the facts are in. Yes, this case smells bad indeed, but stuff happens. To take myself as an example, I do not use my smart phone for eBay, and normally not for e-mail. Normally I'd pay within minutes of the auction ending, but it did happen once that I was suddenly taken to hospital and payment had to wait until I got myself organised. This may be a Norse things, but when we go away for a weekend, many of us choose to be not connected at all; it's part of the experience. As I said before, gazillions of possible explanations, only one of them being the (quite probable) case that the buyer is not honouring the deal.

I'd say many eBay buyers are used to eBay allowing them quite many days before having to pay. Dunno about updated rules, but when I was still active there, you had five days or a full week to pay for your item. Your buyer may think in those terms ... ... or maybe they made an offer knowing that money is coming in next week. ... or maybe they made an offer just before leaving for the week-end. ... or maybe something suddenly happened in their life. What do I know. I'd say give it to Monday evening and then decide. Me, I'd maybe send a friendly reminder after a few days, and then wait out the max period that eBay sets, which I do not think is identical to the mentioned two days.

Thanks for mentioning that. Not sure whether what you noticed makes me more or less interested. I'd think the interesting bit would be what his thoughts and motivations re his music were about.

Normally on a well-lit street corner. Thanks for asking.

Fully agree with that. The winkey I used was to indicate I'm on @PaulThePlug's side in the discussion, as was the expression "go out of his way".

Well, to be fair, the seller did go out of his way to write "needs a clean" on the last pic. 😁 One can't have it all, ya know. 😉

Yes, but I've sold both of them.

Marilyn Monroe (quite unknown punk band) Must admit I loved that name.

Tonewood. Only tonewood.

That first paragraph gives interesting info. Thanks! Not important, but I was referring to research done when I still walked around in classical circles before '84 - possibly in the 70s. I was expecting someone to google, but couldn't be bothered myself, and also I did expect later research to come up and expected the research I talked about to not come up: it was early days in this respect and the secrecy (whilst unbelievably misguided) was enormous. I fully agree with the second paragraph. If different vibration patterns are measurable on the body, then by definition they affect the sound - even if only by slightly changing the distance between the moving string and the now moving pup. The significance of this is an unknown to me, as I've said in this thread (and in previous threads on the same matter). To repeat a previous point I made: in discussions on this topic i never see the bow being mentioned. My senses tell me it might just be a central notion: string amplitude induced tension changes bending the neck/body compound. Maybe true and maybe not true, but I wonder why it's not mentioned. Myself, I couldn't be bothered to Google - mainly for two reasons: people can do their own googling, much better than me, and I just wanted to relay something that I remembered happening long ago. To me a thread on BC is neither science nor pissing contest. One would hope your sarcastic apology was written in the lightest of tones. If OTOH it's to be taken seriously, it says very little about me. I appreciate facts and appreciate being corrected, and in this thread I've been open about my limitations and about my hazy memory.