bass_dinger

I'd be all over that if it was a 2-string. GLWTS.

@SumOne did you have that introductory lesson? How was it?

The rules: "- Maintenance/setups that only involve work on existing aspects of your bass (ie no purchasing a preamp to add to it) - Breakages. If something breaks through no unusual intervention of your own, and is unable to be repaired, you may replace it." It seems to me that repairing the pickup would be maintenance; buying a new pickup would fall under the category of breakages. Interestingly, the rules set out no limit on the cost of the replacement, so @neepheid needn't restrict himself to something cheap. No need to wear the hair-shirt. By way of a precedent, in 2023 I purchased a Washburn bass in bits, without a finish, and with a twisted neck. The new neck (fretless, with the old one being fretted) and the refinishing and the rebuild were all judged to be repairs, in a previous challenge.

Is it my faulty memory, or was there an electric bass guitar with a similar extension?

Pick the colour that looks most like earwax, and horrify the audience.

As is my very own Boulder Creek 5 string acoustic bass, 34" scale length....

1. Join a band, hopefully in a local church. 2. Play in a band with my family (my cousin is decent on acoustic, another younger cousin plays guitar in a tribute band). I just need to cobble together some chord charts for us all. 3. Continue with piano lessons. 4. Learn the mandolin. 5. Get better at reading rhythms in notation. And, not music, but life-skills. 6. Learn German (I already speak a little) 7. Learn Italian (my mum was Italian and when I hear the language, it feels familiar to me). 8. Become more organised in my day - I need to treat my hobbies like a job. "10am - 20 minutes of scales".

This bass combines a lot of elements that I rarely see: 2-over-3 headstock; 10 string (so, 4-over-6 headstock!); multiscale. I like it, very much.

@kwmlondon I am told that they are now on a 5-string bass. Sorry that I was unable to give you better news.

I have no details on the bass that it went onto. However, I have reached out to the beneficiary of my largesse, while at the same time preserving their anonymity. Let's see what the response will be.

A free PCI-E expansion card, probably twin USB 3.0 (because the outputs are blue). Drivers on a weeny CD. I bought it because I wanted more ports on my old Windows 10 PC but it didn't have enough processing power to run the card. I have an new PC now, with 10 USB inputs so I no longer need this card. Free, but postage costs would be appreciated.

If you hadn't, I would have. . . . As it is, I am entirely satisfied with @ash's old E-MU Classic Keys.

Nowadays, even the ABSRM syllabus is not entirely classical. For Grade 3, students have 48 pieces to choose from. I am learning Henry Mancini's Moon River, and a simple ragtime piece from the 1950s. And, I confess, the entirely classical Chanson Italienne by Tchaikovsky. There is also a choice of Joni Mitchell (Both Sides Now), something from Oliver, a piece from Spirited Away, the Muppet Show theme, and Can You Feel the Love Tonight from the Lion King. Admittedly, even this is not really cutting-edge and modern, but they are recognisable tunes (well, not when I play them, but you get my drift).