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Having at least some lessons will help a lot with sorting out technique issues etc. I much prefer to have a teacher, not least because it will push me down paths I probably would not otherwise take. I'm probably weird (there's not need to answer that! 🤣) but I don't have any problems with theory and quite enjoy it. Unless you wander off and want to read figured bass and realise it on a 6 string bass... you don't need to go too far, but enough to be able to understand the basics of scales, keys, chords and harmony etc is probably useful.

I'm currently trying Logic Pro as a free download... Currently watching loads of online stuff to get my head round it

OK... this seems like a sensible place to ask... I'm thinking of trying a 6 string... just for fun... so one of the ones that pops up when I look around is the Spector Legend 6. Anyone familiar with this and have any thoughts? Ta.

To quote Dr. Johnson: Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel

My French is reasonable... (as with many Brits, I can read it better than I can speak it, but I can get by) but the lack of punctuation added to the challenge

As usual, consumer protection law is way behind the curve - it's still stuck in the 1970s

That is extremely good looking

Their cellos used to be made in Romania?

Pic from a few days ago of the routing of the back. Mine is the second one up from bottom left.

Looks like mine's in there too....

You need to make sure that the length of the USPS investigation doesn't expend any of your consumer rights here, e.g. credit cart protection. Anything with an international component is an utter mess at the moment. It's not just basses - astronomy gear is up the wall as well. The vast majority of optical equipment is made in just a few factories in China now, apart from some very high end stuff. Shipping is severely disrupted with delays of 6 months or more being common.

Hope it recovers. I had a complete rupture of my left Achilles' Tendon 2 years ago - separated by 6mm. I had to wear a boot 24x7 for 4 months and I had physio most weeks for 9 months. It was only last September I was fully signed-off. It has fully repaired and the work of the physio has got rid of the lumps and restored full function.

I watched a lot of the videos of this and I came to similar conclusions - it felt like an exercise in being unconventional for no particular reason. I felt it came across as someone who's lost interest to some extent?

I've ditched Spotify as its coverage of classical is poor - limited choice of performances of works and poorly catalogued. Trying out Primephonic... so listening to the recently issues performance of the Bach Well Tempered Clavier book 2 played by the Phantasm viol consort, which is proving enjoyable.

Amongst my musical interests, I play sax and I run a sax ensemble, which is currently an octet on 2 sops, 2 altos, 2 tenors, and 2 baritones. We haven't met for over a year due to lockdown and our rehearsal venue is currently a vaccination centre, so we can't resume until September. I sometimes make arrangements for the group as it's not easy to find stuff for sax ensembles and it can get very expensive very quickly. I most often go for short Renaissance dance pieces like works by the English composer Holborne since I have a set of his works published in 1599... (I like to keep up-to-date with musical fashions...). I've just been listening to some recent recordings of music from the same period by Michael Pratetorius and for some of the movements they 'played' with it and replaced the violone (double bass viol) with electric bass etc. and it was quite good. So, I'm thinking of making some arrangements now which I can a part for me to play on bass. The main challenge is that if I look at a facsimile edition of the Praetorius, it it will be in all sorts of weird clefs (e.g. the G1 French violin clef) and weird time signature notation (e.g. prolation etc). And no bar lines... You can see all of this in this example

They have a stupendous workshop. They seem to get their wood in just planks from the timber supplier and have to remove the bark etc. It's interesting to see the precision with which they fix the wood to the CNC router table

I've watched a number of their videos in the last few weeks. It's interesting to see how their CNC techniques have evolved.

Hi, welcome

Amongst the weird things I do is play the viola da gamba aka viol. The double bass viol is the violone and is the ancestor of the upright double bass. There are some right weird options with viols for tuning - partly because there was no standardisation in the early days over sizes/tunings. They all have 6 strings (mostly), so the bass which is cello sized is DGCEAD and the tenor is a 4th up at GCFADG (treble is octave above bass and violone octave below tenor). But you'll sometimes encounter an 'alto' tuned B upwards... Then there's the lyra viol. This is usually a bass viol that is played using lute tablature rather than staff notation. These can be in all sorts of tunings and the tuning is indicated at the start of the piece. I've played some lyra viol music - it is brain warping.... there's a video in this link which is informative. https://earlymusicshop.com/blogs/viola-da-gamba/introducing-the-lyra-viol

This seems to have been the issue when Apple updated the OS to Big Sur at the end of last year

I have a nice full size Yamaha upright piano... 🙂 I'm not a brilliant pianist. I would probably aim at 4 octave device, as I can see 25 key one being a bit limiting. I'm a novice at using this technology, so want something to enable me to key in music but also provide some control over the DAW. So, some level of functionality, compatibility with Logic Pro X and Big Sur, four octaves. Having spent a lot of time these last few days going through reviews and user guides online, I may need to spend a little more.

I flagged them up as they seem to have some compatibility issues with the Mac Big Sur OS... not sure if it's been resolved or not.

Useful info. I've been down some YT rabbit holes today... One thing that has popped up is that M-Audio doesn't seem to get on very well with Big Sur OS on Mac - looks like it's pending an update from M-Audio. I had an awful experience with my NAS storage which is Western Digital when Big Sur was launched.

This is now fraud and there is little excuse for you not to be refunded

I have a Mac mini and a MacBook Pro. I'm thinking of getting Logic Pro, but I'll need a midi keyboard. Not an area of expertise! Prefer to spend less than £100. I'm guessing any midi keyboard will work (since 'midi' is a standard...). Does anyone have suggestions or recommendations? Thanks.