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There does appear to be a market for jazz around these parts; this company (run by a bassist) puts on a lot of decent gigs. As for amateur jazz, we usually get paid for gigs. Not a huge amount, but a contribution towards the various expenses incurred is welcome. The difficulty is in finding those venues where the sort of jazz I want to play would be accepted; there don't appear to be many and they're often booked up. As for sport then as I run the local class I'm the one collecting payments. For big events where I'm invited to teach then there's usually free entry at least (entry fees can be £100+) and perhaps some sort of expenses or board and lodging. Of course, if I simply attend without teaching then I have to pay up in full.

IIRC this is the first bass gig I did (I switched from guitar to fretless bass). Apparently the intonation is reasonable given my experience at the time, but the choice of notes is sometimes a bit dodgy.

One of these would be nice: https://www.thomasmartin.co.uk/instruments-for-sale/new-double-basses/martin-concert-3-4-viol-double-bass First, however, would be a new house so I could have enough room to store more basses. If on a spending spree then I'd bag something along these lines also: https://www.thomann.co.uk/dangelico_excel_exl1_amber.htm

If you're willing to take an approx. 10 mile drive up the A40 from north Oxford then these rooms have been decent, in my experience: https://grstudios.co.uk/

The change I'd want to see would be for this to be unlined (with dots moved to the appropriate place): https://www.fender.com/en-GB/squier-electric-basses/jazz-bass/classic-vibe-60s-jazz-bass-fretless/0374531500.html If it had been I'd have bought one years ago and stuck with it.

When I got mine the seller put the word about amongst tutors in the area. If you know any then that might be worth a try. Sadly, I only have room for one.

The reason I was wondering is that I've been finding that a significant number of new instruments need fret work, and so have started assuming that pretty much anything I buy new could require extra money to be spent if I want to play it with a low action and no buzzing. So, a second hand instrument might be better value if someone else has already done the work. Perhaps it's just my bad luck.

What's that? It's not something I'd heard of.

Thanks, this is useful. Something I wondered about - would you take into account any work done on the instrument? For example , if you'd bought that £570 bass and then had to spend £100 getting the frets properly filed down. I'd guess that this is simply a hit the original purchaser would be expected to absorb, though.

Orange OBC112 with a TC Electronics BAM200. This works very nicely for jazz DB and isn't a hassle to transport.

Last night's jam had a higher turnout than usual. Across the room from me were four gypsy jazz guitarists and a violinist, plus a chap with some sort of breath-operated synth set up to sound like an accordion, with the result that we got a lot of gypsy jazz and not really much else. There weren't as many horn players. One of them has been learning bass guitar and asked to sit in for a couple of tunes. Being aware of this beforehand I had brought a Les Paul(*) and small amp and was able to get a couple of guitar solos in. I think I got away with it. At least the tone was nice. Useful side effect: I keep getting GAS for an acoustic guitar, thinking that it might be nice to not have to plug in to practice, just like when I practice my bass. However, hearing the LP alongside the acoustics reminded me that I don't much like the sound of the latter and this will perhaps strengthen resistance. (*) Well, an Epiphone LP special...

I did indeed note that. Nevertheless, there may still be an issue in your browser or OS which has caused this. The ping will check to see if you can resolve the domain name and reach the remote server. If both those are working then there's something up in the browser, and a look in the developer tools may show you a failed connection. N.B. your browser may be set to use a different DNS from the rest of the OS.

Do you have any plugins in your browser, e.g ad blockers? You could also try opening the developer tools (under "more tools" in the menu in Firefox, I don't know above Brave) and selecting the network tab. This may then show you if anything is being blocked when you refresh the page. It may also be worth pinging andertons.co.uk: https://www.howtogeek.com/355664/how-to-use-ping-to-test-your-network/ If your connection to andertons.co.uk is OK you should see something like this: PING andertons.co.uk (217.70.184.55): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 217.70.184.55: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=19.978 ms 64 bytes from 217.70.184.55: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=17.132 ms 64 bytes from 217.70.184.55: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=18.226 ms ^C --- andertons.co.uk ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 17.132/18.445/19.978/1.172 ms Edit: I forgot to add that you could also try https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

I saw this as well: https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/

They did it again yesterday. I complained to the brewery who said "We have had a few instances like this recently so I have raised with our Account Manager at Evri so they can investigate. We are currently assessing our courier options as well." Presumably Evri drivers have been given a quota of packages they must "deliver" first time, or else, and so they drop them and run.