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Although I own a number of other basses, they rarely get any playing time these days as my Ritters just ‘work’ for me so well. My poor 60’s Fenders only get played about once every 2-3 months :( I have five of them now and I’ve gigged all of them except my black Victor tribute (built by Jens in honour of my dear friend, and colleague, Vic Davies). I just love everything about them, light weight, lots of tonal variation, slim necks, fractionally shorter scales etc. Simply the most ‘playable’ basses I’ve ever owned. Your Roya looks lovely. I think the Roya body shape works better as a 5 than my usual 4’s. I’ve owned a couple but the upper horn position holds them slightly differently to my others and I kept finding my fingers drifting across 2 frets. Random pic of my Ritter wall in my study:

Get out of here - it’s fabulous. The horn section is to die for!

It shouldn’t cost much to run. Ours is £9 a month(and that actually allows me to maintain 5 sites).

So sad to hear this, one of my absolute favourite bassists. Always seemed to be able to get so much heartfelt emotion to even the simplest of parts. I adore his playing on this from John Martyn:

Maybe the 1-String - I actually love the idea of this 😂

Knirrir - whereabouts in Oxfordshire are you? I’m right down in the south in Henley