SpondonBassed

I understand course tuning to mean tuning strings in groups or... courses. It is not the same as coarse tuning, which just sounds vulgar.

I'd like to replace the word odd in my previous comment with the word outrageous. Yes. That's why I find it hard to understand how an instrument with such a difference in string gauges adjacent to each other would be sold without being independently adjustable for each saddle. I suppose I shouldn't really be surprised when Leo's bridges were pairing different gauges on the same saddle for years and they're still popular.

You must be thinking of WILF - Wrinkly I'd Like to.... I should watch myself. I'm already eligible for SAGA insurance myself.

Funny that. I used to wonder if that was recognised as a chord myself. I also used to wonder if I could find a previously unheard of chord by chucking a few choir boys off of varying heights of step ladder simultaneously but I haven't been able to test that one yet.

Thanks. I knew I wasn't the only one.

That's odd. The 'net images I saw look like there isn't any staggering between the heavy and light gauges at each individual saddle. I wonder if the maker supplies own-brand strings that do intonate correctly? Otherwise, I can't see how they'd get away with it.

Good point, a bit sticky mind you but a good point none-the-less.

Yes. The strings being grouped by threes. I struggle to stop two adjacent strings on the same fret with some of my fretting fingers. It would take a bit of effort to span three at a time with my narrow fingertips every time I fret a note. I'd hate to imagine what it would be like if I really liked playing chords*. It seems like a tool for a specific job to me. Given a particular goal that would require a lot of pedal tweakage to achieve otherwise a twelve starts to make sense. I wouldn't think it is a sound that I'd want throughout the whole of a set. *I am assuming that a twelve is not best suited to chord playing bassists, generally speaking, although it seems to work for guitarists who have six groups of two...

In my case I only sat on the 'bike. I never even got to turn the motor over until the swelling went down a week later! @Happy Jack; It sounds like you'd need a massive sac(k) to accommodate your bulky peripherals.

The incident is one that I will never forget. The site of the sting was right on my glans! I modified the story slightly for laughs to compensate for the days of agony that I suffered. I'll let you imagine what sort of ribbing I got from the other campers. That was the last time I swung a leg over a motorbike whilst naked without checking the saddle first. Talk about motorcycle helmets... mine was a beaut for a while.

I understand your smugness. I was getting remarks along the same lines after a bee-sting to the scrote at a naturist campsite years ago.

Yes. A right old rip-off they were. If the vinyl was any thinner it'd be transparent.

When I was (very) young it was a revelation to me that the performers on TOTP were not actually performing for the most part. Everyone around me already knew! Before wireless the absence of instrument cables gave it away even if the vocalist was miming well. We were much more easily entertained back then. Now we're demanding a lot out of entertainment.

The above makes it look like you have a granny flat in your rucksack and you have a low opinion of her. For shame! Heeheehee I have a canvas bag in the style of a holdall but smaller. It's a little shy of eighteen inches in length and it holds cables, tuner, strings, a mains extension reel, some switch cleaner and nail clippers. I don't gig but if I did I imagine I'd have to be a lot more focussed about what gets carried in it than I am now. I'd consider a rucksack if I didn't already have a gig bag for my bass to put on my back. Although I have a hard case for the bass, it's not used for the walk to my local because it spoils my gait and I get problems with my neck as a result. As I have a gig bag for the bass that can be worn with shoulder straps I'm happy enough to carry the bag. If I was going in a vehicle, the hard case would be used and then the rucksack would be ideal. I suppose it is inevitable that I will get into pedals and other peripheral stuff which will make me rethink my luggage but I won't get a larger bag just now because I would tend to look for gear to fill it up. We'll soon be able to buy robotic luggage that follows us whilst looking like something cute out of a Japanese cartoon. Won't that be great?

I have a B2A and a bottle of Tippex. When I know the cash is in the post I'll Tippex in the missing '1' and send it to you. Heeheehee

Why have I suddenly got images of chimps, pianos, stairs and a nice cup of tea in my mind? I am impressed by the engineering behind bass twelves. That's as far as it goes for me I'm afraid. Five is more than enough for me to cope with. I'd imagine your damping skills have to be spot-on at all times.

YW

Damn. I was only thinking of commissioning a limited print run on the backs of fifty pairs of M&S Y-fronts when you posted that. Soggy chips now.

Oh?

Not at all. I'm getting the stuff that doesn't make it to print. Thanks one and all. One of the consequences of that incident when I was nine is that I have a real problem with authority figures. I have that for life. Often it is the case that someone well meaning will try to assume the upper hand when it is not asked for. In those cases I tend to I react poorly once that indefinable button has been pushed. No-one has, as yet, crossed that line with me here. I don't think it's likely someone would anyway. It's a fault of mine. I can blame no-one else for it. It's how I got through all the different schools I ended up in. I'd have been beaten to a pulp by bullies had I been any other way.

Cheers Andy. It is the forum that keeps on giving.

See this is why I like your style. To have the black and gold the other way 'round would just be vulgar. (Retires to flame proof bunker in advance of the Bling Bling Brigade's response)

I appreciate you taking the time to make those recommendations. With all due respect though, you wouldn't be the first to make them in my fifty five years and God willing, you wont be the last. I am only doing this for fun. You're wanting me to go into an area that is most certainly not fun. As a youth I had a start in music which was pretty much ruined by our emigration from Britain in the early seventies. There were also other factors including a drama teacher who put me in an embarrassing situation that it took me decades to get over. More recently I had a very similar experience and twice in a lifetime for that sort of event is too much. I stay away from teachers as a general rule. Suffice it to say that I hate schools as a consequence of being misunderstood from a very early age. I've been to too many and they all have their own version of what is 'right'. Because I have a decent IQ (ignoring the wee-weeing contest elsewhere in this topic), teachers patronised me more than was good for my personal development. I don't need teachers around me now and I have lots of books for reference along with the massive resource that is the 'net. As for 'asking us lot'... isn't that one heck of a good reason to be a member here? I mean, to be able to ask in a place where lots of people do it for real and get credited in terms of music sales or publicity rather than academic qualification has to be better than looking through fusty old books or yappy young things on YT - hasn't it? At the end of it all, I don't get out much and this is a good social outlet. If it isn't fun why would I want it as a hobby? It was only a simple question. Thanks anyway. I hope I don't sound unappreciative of your suggestions for further study but this is something of a magical mystery tour for me and I think an itinerary would spoil it somewhat.

Now Marc Almond I can understand...