BassTractor

My condolences to Colin's family and friends. He was an important BC member for me when I started on BC. I'd noticed he posted less the last couple of years, but had no idea it might be related to his health. A sad loss. Rest in peace, Colin.

🤣 (Though I didn't click on that link. Why? Didn't need to. Still have them in stock, five years after closing my kayaking firm. Very practical product, but nobody ever bought one - not online and not even from my wife, who to some degree resembled a woman.) As to GuitarChat, I think it would be a good idea if we all were to post there often, and show a particular interest in the B-string, especially when talking about fingering. ...which brings us nicely back to KazooChat.

Most people here can't play the bass for life, but that doesn't stop them. In fact, if they'd spent their 10,000 hours not on BC but on practising, all things would've been different many places. (Yes, I knooow what I'm talking about. 65,000 hours ago, I decided to read something on BC...) 😁

We wouldn't know, would we? It would be helpful though if someone could finally post a photograph of him. 😂

Yes, but with the caveat that the physical connector must be protected. It's not really made-for-live equipment like an XLR. Also, running newer software on older hardware has the same disadvantage as always, also on Apple gear.

🙂 You're not alone. Me, I sometimes have to check the initialism. That I remember for some reason. 😕 As to Chris Squire, I knew about him before I heard the first song. I read a lot back then, and bought NO albums coz I didn't have pocket money, and had read about a promising band called Yes with THE Chris Squire in it. Never having heard about the man or The Syn, I still was interested because of that article. "Yes", whilst nice to hear, contained too many lyrics for my young ears, but by "Time and a Word", I'd given up any hopes of only playing instrumental albums forever. Then "The Yes Album" removed all doubt. "Roundabout" was the first song that made me realise just how exquisite his bass parts were. The rest is history.

So is mine in a way. It's my cousin. Me, I'm blue and rusty.

Didn't know that, but then I always preferred James Newton Howard & Friends as a far better band than Toto. 😉 Back to Yes though, whilst I do love TfTO, it has many parts where it feels as if they have no clue as to where they're going. Also, the taking up themes from one movement in later ones never felt as making the unity strong on this one.

From Wikipedia: Michelle Lynn Johnson, better known as Meshell Ndegeocello (/mɪˈʃɛl ndɛˈɡeɪoʊtʃɛloʊ/; born August 29, 1968), is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, and bassist. She has gone by the name Andrew M.L.J. Gowing which is used as a writing credit on some of her later work.[1] Her music incorporates a wide variety of influences, including funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, reggae and rock. She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career,[2][3] and although she has never won a Grammy Award, she has been nominated ten times.[4] She has been credited for helping to have "sparked the neo-soul movement."[5] So I think it's safe to say he does look like that. Me, I'm confused by these modern gender things. Sigh. Getting old. 😉

🙂 Yup.

From what you've told so far, I still gather your best option is a sound module. There must be modules on the market that are aimed at your type of band, i.e. with piano, electric piano, organ and some fave synth presets. You wrote about a "good" piano etc., and I think it's essential to define what "good" is, as quality comes at a price. From how I understand you, you're probably looking at an OK-it-sounds-cheesy-but-we-only-make-50-quid-a-night!-module. However, a used module like a Yamaha MU128 (£250 used on Amazon UK) might be a solution. See vid below. As to Android apps, I'm wary of that idea for now: - For one, you're already using an app for driving your desk. How are you gonna control two apps at the same time? - Another thing is that Android traditionally was not the natural habitat for synth apps and the like (the iPad is), but I know things have changed to some degree. You could have a look at Bebot and Caustic 3, for example. A search should give some more results.

I hear there's a song called "Take Four", which is written in 4/4. Clever. No changes though, but then again we're on BC. 😉

You've made your choice, and I respect it. It's bloody stupid, but I bloody respect it. Also, it's absurd, but I respect it. Oh, and it's treason worse than betraying your country. but I respect it. ... Please stay? 😉 Seriously though, if you do not wish to stay-on-BC-and-just-use-the-C-only, which still is a good option, then I wish you all the very best with your endeavours! all the best, bert

Hehe. Me too, but let's just be grateful hundreds of fiddles and mandolins burned. All part of God's plan! PS and BTW in the interest of full disclosure: I own a fiddle, and a mandolin is the very next instrument I'm gonna buy. But still... 😉

As you seem to indicate, I was wise when demanding a 4-manual, 65 stop organ, and not a 1-manual, 6-stop one.

No such thing as a left-handed 4-manual 65 stop pipe organ. No such thing as a left-handed triangle. No such thing as a left-handed crash cymbal. Glad to be of service. 😉

Huh? I see a regular brass instrument mouthpiece, which in my world is defining. Or are you saying it's a brass instrument that still isn't family? In case, I'm with you.

Innersting! I wrote left-handed until the teacher in first form reached for the stick (he held strongly negative opinions about cack-handed people, atheism and playing his violin in tune 😄 ). As to the gun, part of me firing a right-handed gun is my left-handedness. My right index finger may well pull a trigger, but I need the control of my left arm for aiming and keeping a long gun steady. Me, I don't understand how right-handed people manage their right-handed guns, unless they're just all very strong and I'm a weakling. I've been wondering whether right-handed guns actually are adapted to aiming with the right eye. I wouldn't know. Tennis and table tennis are a fun subject to me personally, as I have two forehands and two backhands (though none of those four are any good). My tennis teachers hated my throwing (yes!) my racket to the other hand when I felt a forehand would serve (no pun) me better, but they couldn't fight my statistics. I guess pros are so quick that they have no time for throwing rackets in exactly this way (they do have time for throwing rackets in general of course 😄 ), but on my local level, it was an advantage - - duly frowned upon, coz no-one likes to play with/against someone with an advantage. I think there's a good chance many so-called right-handed objects are based on one early example of the object, whether it be a tool or a musical instrument, and that adaptation by users in those cases has been more important than we tend to think. In case, science could find out what really are left-handed and right-handed objects. Maybe science already has done something there, Idunno. I do know that some scientists say that the human eyes and the human brain together make left-handed traffic the better choice. Who knows.

Great contribution to this thread. I love it. We had of course been waiting for this pic from you. 🙂 Can we await more skeletons from your cupboard? You being a pro 'n' all?

OH! I found one of those reverse keyboard thingies: The Korg Poly-800. Yup! Sorry. Couldn't resist. 😊

A keyboarder like me, perhaps? Well, sadly I can't explain it. I did once own some sort of keyboard instrument that could play left-handed, but have forgotten the specifics. Something tells me it may have been a DX7 or a TX802 or both. Absolutely not sure though. I do remember connecting certain analogue monophonic synths to other brands, Korg and Kawai in one case, and getting reverse working out of that. Joe Zawinul had something that reversed his ARP 2600, but I've forgotten whether this was a one-of thing or similar to what I did: combining different brands with different specifications. Probably the 2600 keyboard with reversed PCB or resistor row. From Medieval pipe organs to and including electro-mechanical organs like the Hammonds, reversible keyboards would be near impossible or probably demand too much, but i see no technical problem for many electronic organs and all synthesizers - no matter whether the keyboard was scanned or had a row of resistors. These days, in a synth, the reverse thing could also be stored the very same place as the alternative tunings - - depending on specifications. At any rate: not a technical problem at all. 🎹

There might be a case for stating that if left-handed versions are not provided for orchestra instruments, that left-handed people have a higher risk of not being able to play those instruments well. In case, we initially wouldn't know, coz all violinists and flautists in orchestras are good at what they do. One would then need to find whether left-handed people are underrepresented before making statements. Left-handed versions have been built for some instruments that are not guitars, but IMS it was for finding out about these things - not as commercial products. On a more personal note, as a leftie, when I was young, before trying to play guitars, I was handed a left-handed guitar and really couldn't get on with it. Was then handed a right-handed one, and everything fell into place. Still, I believe I could've learned to play the left-handed one. As a leftie there's no chance I can throw a ball with my right hand, but there's also no chance I can fire a left-handed gun and hit the target. Idunno. It's complicated.

Yes, and they play together very well. In the song's opening, I only heard one spot where there's a slight discrepancy between them (didn't listen to the rest). Quality. If one gets a Clavi-like sound from a Future Impact or other gear, then I think the whole segment can be played on the bass, and there's no need at all to suppress the bass during the parts that on the recording are played by the Clavi only. Me, I love this exact doubling, and had the song's opening on repeat. Luvverly.

😃 Coincidentally, the Clavinet has much of the same hollowness that a clarinet has. Much like a Renaissance regal, which, like the Clavinet, had a sharpness to it. BTW, I now understand this song is from the seventies, in which case I know of no instrument that emulated a Clavinet this well. IOW, this most probably is just an original Clavinet, and as said, with some filtering going on, and I agree with the dash of flanging @SteveK mentioned.

Without any doubt a Hohner Clavinet or an instrument emulating it. Edit: Hehehe. Should teach me to learn to type. The above gentlemen are correct. 😁