bass_dinger

I read this out loud, to my wife. She laugh, with joy, at the wisdom and the poetry therein. I am now practicing...

That's what did it for me: the endless repetition of a single piece to get it just so, and the aiming for one single perfect performance. I am guessing that if @SumOne has played something 100 times on the bass guitar, it is because it has been gigged it 95 times. However, piano is frustratingly different, and difficult. I confess to have taken an inadvertent break from learning recently - I am simply not practicing anymore, because failure is so discouraging. I realise now, that I need to practice little and often, and work through the difficulties that comes from learning something new. Onwards and upwards...

Bits of violin - tail pieces, rosin, fine tuners, all free

I checked my diary in which I noted the conversation. "Has been adjourned until February 2026". I suspect that the clerk misread the date - she like me, reasonably expected the case to be resolved 6 months after it first came before the court, rather than 18 months.

Those puns - I am laughing myself hoarse!

Midi [5pin] to TRS jack Such cables do exist, and are available (other suppliers can be found) https://www.amazon.co.uk/kenable-3-5mm-Stereo-Audio-Cable-Black/dp/B00KQUZQ4O/ref=asc_df_B00KQUZQ4O?mcid=9505f24b5e163411afc0646faf38461b&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=710760400267&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4222002176326608353&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9044980&hvtargid=pla-392235580309&hvocijid=4222002176326608353-B00KQUZQ4O-&hvexpln=0&gad_source=1&th=1 This thread https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/521143-midi-pedal-board/#comment-5602414 has @BigRedX telling me that "MIDI leads despite using 5-Pin DIN connectors only use 3 of the conductors - the centre pin for earth and the two pins immediately either side of that for the data signal. The other two pins are unused."

An update, and a correction. I called Leicester Crown Court (0116 222 5700) and quoted the usual reference (33JJ0821825) and answered the usual questions, and was given the date of the trial. "It's the week commencing 8th February 2027" - not 2026. I am not sure where 2026 came from - apologies.

Or, as the Tesco Recipe book describes it, "horses for courses"....

Look on ebay for writing desks and Welsh dressers. They are pretty much unsellable especially if they are dark brown wood, made in the 70s or 80s, and definitely if they are huge. Convert the draw fronts into drop down flaps to reveal a sliding tray for a electric piano or mixing desk, put a rack unit and amplifier into the cupboard on the bottom. If the top unit has glass doors, hang curtains inside to obscure the PC monitor and powered monitors. Go big on lots of shelves and alcoves for storage - as you have already discovered, having one single 8'×4' shelf leads to a messy layout. Try also local auctioDepending ouses, Facebook market place, and house clearance companies. Even if they don't want that sort of furniture, they might be willing to tell you about it. If you buy yourself a Victorian piano stool to place in front of the unit, you will have somewhere to sit that matches the unit. Depending on the layout and size of the unit you could use it to store bass guitars. Perhaps you might buy a second unit (a wardrobe) to store the instruments.

I have had a long think about this. I think that I like this inexpensive pedalboard - it is portable, and sits in a neat enclosure. That means that i won't need to pull apart a home-organ to salvage the pedals and then make an enclosure. If I leave it as it is, it will only work with a 30 year old GEM keyboard. If I convert it to midi, it will work with any midi device (including the 30 year old GEM keyboard, which also has midi). So, once I learn electronics, midi it will be!

It's like sending one's children to Finishing School in Switzerland. One is surprised to see that they had such potential, but delighted to see that they have been smartened up and made presentable. Well done @Mediocre Polymath.

Did we ever get a Uke bass thread? Did I miss it?

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.