bass_dinger

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).

@Mediocre Polymath bought a mandolin off of me, coming to my gaff to pick it up. Lovely chap, easy sale - and more space for me!

I had one of those, until about 11:30 this morning, when it was bought by @Mediocre Polymath. He was so pleased with it, and played it so well, that I nearly offered to buy it back from him! In other news, lots of basschatty mandolin updates can be found here https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/327383-i-fancy-a-mandolin/page/2/#comment-4879070

That makes sense: sell the item into its home market, and people recognise and favour that brand, and pay a premium for it. An update: I spoke with the seller, and asked him whether the pedalboard was indeed a Midi item. "It's Midi, and it's not Midi". I think that he saw anything with multi-Pin connector, which can be plugged in, as a type of midi. I have put it down to a lack of expertise, rather than willful deception (although he used to run his own music shop, so he should know better). The item is unused - it is New Old Stock - and had a retail price of about £300. Given the above, I am happy to have the item to either resell, or to retrofit with a midi module. (Or even, shove it up in the loft for my children to rediscover when I am dead!) One can purchase a midi retro-fit kit from Doepfer, and turn a normal pedal board into a midi trigger device: 1. Doepfer midi module https://www.thomann.co.uk/doepfer_mbp25_elektronik.htm 2. Doepfer Panel https://www.thomann.co.uk/doepfer_mbp25_frontplatte.htm 3. Connection cable https://www.thomann.co.uk/doepfer_connection_cable_pd_3.htm 4. The manual https://doepfer.de/pdf/MBP25_Manual.pdf The manual will hopefully give me enough information to guide me. Oddly, the usual sources of information (YouTube and Redditt) are silent - I haven't yet found detailed advice on installing an MBP25.

This is what I ended up with - the turntable sounds great and Mrs Dinger and I are enjoying our vinyl collection again. I had forgotten (or perhaps not realised) how lifelike an LP can sound. Dual 505 > Arcam Alpha 9 > Gale speakers on Atacama stands. And an IKEA "HiFi Rack". It brings me great joy.