Owen

I dream of being able to do that. And believe me, I have tried.

I am sure Belgium has some fine pickup winders!

To the Post Office. Post to https://www.catswhiskerpickups.co.uk/. Job done.

Rewinding what is in there would not cost a fortune.

Get a load of that!

While we are discussing the Macca/Hofner interface, any opinions on a cheap and cheerful functioning copy of one of these? I just fancy one. I have played one but cannot for the life of me remember what it was.

We actually have F and FF. No, I am not talking about dynamics.

Niche, but funny!

No guts, no glory LP man!

Da da-da da da daaaaa, da da da da da daaaaa, da da da da da da da-da da etc IIRC.

Weird and wonderful would be to buy one of these, put a proper bridge, new machine heads, Delano 5string P pickup and custom Newtone strings on it and expect it to function as a 5 string bass. It did not.

That's where that went! It was certainly from the days before lightweight was a thing.

Lovely cabs.

That's a short scale P, right?

To be fair, in a 7 minute CCW vid, the first 2 minutes are sub-Clannad "wooooowooo" and the last 2 minutes are a repeated tag with someone giving it their max on the vocal front. Not the max, but their max. During lockdown we had a bunch of these in our online services which were a run of videos at the begining. We usually managed 30 seconds before moving on to the next video. I often wonder what people are hearing that I am missing.

You could think about it as keeping the alphabet pure. You need to go letter by letter. If the note before it in the scale is an A then it would be a Bb. If the note before it was a G# then it would be an A#. If the note above it was a C then it would be a Bb. Reading a G# going to a Bb alphabet wise would suggest some kind of 3rd if you think about it on linear alphabet from. But we know it could not be any sort of 3rd cos there is only a tone between them. So the notes are named and notated in context with what is around them. It is a notation thing really. Notation is the least bad way we have.

Very little of the "classical" ensemble oeuvre is played from memory. When I say very little, I mean that I have literally never seen it. The nature of things is that there will be maybe 3 full rehearsals of 3 hours each (max, and that is a massive luxury) and then it is concert o'clock. There is simply no time to learn stuff like that. Pro players have fearsome sight reading skills. It is part of their training.