SpondonBassed

Nick Lowe is not only a singing bassist... he's been seen with an eight string Hamer on music videos too. Oo. (Heeheehee. 12 & 8 String Basses)

You're welcome. I thought it was an interesting diversion. There was a clip in that lot where the placement of hydrophones and dead spots in a small enclosure was discussed. Technically speaking, it was a treat.

It's the home straight now. You have more patience with web searches than I have. After I've sorted the irrelevant ads, other search engines and chancer websites from the list of so-called results in the search window I opened, I've almost lost the will to carry on. Jez's response is good example of the good natured sharing of information by those who have already been there. As proven, this is a great place to ask for guidance.

Between Music's YT Vidlist.

The commentary said that the sounds heard through water were a throwback to the sounds that every human being experiences in the womb. I have no experience of ghostly music other than the sound of the theremin.

I want to see the other side of this at least, if not the entire instrument. It looks fascinating. Have you played it?

Crikey Fleab, if you're like that over some plastic strips, what are you like with your Christmas shopping list? Ignore my attempts to extract the piddle. I'm glad to see you making efforts with the smaller things. It's so easy to add up a whole lot of seemingly insignificant costs and find you've spent too much. It looks like you enjoy the challenge of searching through pages of search engine results about as much as I do though. I bet it's all the more frustrating now that you can almost see a finished product.

...and others are waiting for the day that you give your router flying lessons after it delivers a vicious bite to your book-matched bits. Heeheehee. I hope I have not tempted fate with my facetious comment.

AquaSonic - Between Music I just saw a piece on this ensemble on this morning's BBC Travel Show. It was both fascinating and disturbing. For the disturbing bit, watch the last half minute or so where one of the performers is pawing, so to speak, at the glass. I realised that I had been holding my breath in sympathy up to that point when I had to breath in suddenly. Breathtaking is a starkly appropriate adjective for the act. The vocal parts require extra control as water is taken in as close to the larynx as possible without gagging. Some of the instruments have been made especially for this project over the ten years or so of its existence. Of particular interest was an instrument that has the sonic qualities of a cello. It looks like a strung wire-frame body with the saddle of a lathe (complete with tailstock wheel) at one end and a loudspeaker cone grafted on at the other end. I'm happy enough that the instrument takes care of the sound of bowed strings. If plucked, it might be good for metal too but I don't suppose there would be much opportunity for slappists in this group. With all that wrist flapping you'd risk emptying your tank before you got to the middle eight!

The one I noticed it on was Queen of Hearts.

It cheers me to know that there are actually people who can afford to buy items of this sort. If I was one of them I'd probably buy something equally inexplicable to onlookers like a hat made out of dodo skin gloves or summat. Seriously though. It is a beautiful thing.

Welcome Romain.

Cheers Andy. Apart from the slap and the awful stall after he did a palm slide it sounds good. I'd like to hear it played on something appropriate though. That sound could get tiresome in the same way that banjo or a uke might, I think.

I spotted Nick Lowe playing a Hamer eight on a Dave Edmunds number the other day. I'd seen it before and wondered but this thread encouraged me to look it up when I saw it again. I like Nick Lowe as a singing bassist too. I have almost got Love the Sound of Breaking Glass down.

Whatever it sounds like, it's an amazing bass in any case. I was gobsmacked. If you look closely at the saddle it is, in fact, irregular where each string breaks across it's length. I would have expected more of a difference between the strings but small as it is each string has a unique break point. I'd like to know if anyone's listened to or had a go on one. Anyone here lucky enough to actually own one?

Welcome Alan.

Welcome Jlawren3

Welcome Tb4sbp

Cool. It is no more than it needs to be yet everything you need it to be.

They can snigger all they want. Even if I could use a touch screen like normal folk do I wouldn't because I hate the notion of touching the screen at all! I like a clean screen with zero fingerprints. When someone hands me their tablet 'phone to show me a photo, I find smears in the way and the follow-up farce of wiping and loosing the photo because I've pressed a hidden side key or I've simply swiped the photo out of existence makes it more of a chore to look at someone else's holiday snaps than EVER before. Thankfully, I don't need touch screen technology. I'd hate to be dependent on it.

Yes. I don't use them whenever I can avoid them. In addition, I like the tactile nature of a physical keyboard. I have a bluetooth keyboard to use if my housemate needs me to do something on his tablet. I think my sense of feel has developed better as a result of using real keyboards and that helps my bass playing.

It looks good in that colour.

If she did it on her day off then of course. It would be short-lived. Heeheehee. Thanks for reminding me Bubinga. I enjoyed the clip at the time. I've also wondered if there was more to this.

True enough. Your studies paid off then. I have picked up some good knowledge from your comments in various posts. Between Jabba_the_gut's practical examples and your nuggets of information, I've learned a lot in my relatively short time on this forum. The finish on your guitar speaks volumes. You needn't sell yourself short.

Welcome Bassalarky. I'm surprised you haven't already dipped your toe, so to speak. As a hobby bassist I am very glad to read that as it suggests that you coped very well without pedals so far. Although I'd love to get into them myself, I resist because it is unlikely that any pedal would improve my playing. I'd have to have a specific reason to try one. On reflection I might benefit from a looping pedal of some description but I'd only end up playing with myself when what I really need is a lickle band of my very own.