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Not the Foo Fighters, just been refunded for my tickets 😢

They should get some interest on the woodwind group as people are always after beginner/ intermediate stuff for sensible money. Good luck

If you are on Facebook there is a private group called U.K. woodwind for sale. Stuff moves well on there and people are decent and will help with values if needed. Depending what they are and where you are, The Saxshack in Stoke is brilliant and he will sell them on commission for you, for student/ common stuff he gets better prices even after the % is taken off then you would get selling private. Cafe saxophone is a dead end, you get 100 comments picking up every tiny detail and I gave up in the end as stuff just doesn’t move at all and they aren’t very friendly. Out of interest, what are they? I am partial to the odd saxophone here or there…..

You can indeed, I changed the pre-amp valves to get a bit more clean headroom on mine. With 1000w on tap losing a little top end volume is not a problem.

Can I play everything I want to? Yes Do I still have the desire to improve? Yes Am I a bass God? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 No, but I enjoy it immensely.

Not just on higher price stuff. I had some fun with a muppet trying to get me to pay £100 insurance on a £20 sax mouthpiece.

+1 I have never run mine at more that halfway at ANY gig and that was outside. I know mine is the 1000w one but I have used a 500w one and it was very similar. I cannot imagine a venue big enough to need the volume but that relied on the band to fill the space with sound themselves.

Oh yes! I have the 1000w version, you wouldn’t let your daughter marry it!

But they don’t clone plates by contacting people advertising cars and asking what the reg is, contrary to the believers of the urban myth believers who fuzz out the reg on ads. It’s much easier to go down the local Asda etc and look for one, or just Google it. Even easier with serial numbers as most manufacturers publish lists/ dates.

Very happy now. For once I am not looking for anything, unlike on skinny 6 string guitar where I am messing around with all sorts.

Googling the serial number can bring up fakes. I bought a bitsa not believing it to be genuine and paid accordingly. When I checked the serial number the ‘same bass’ has been up for sale many times in many colours.

I bought my father in law one. I was surprised at the quality. As long as you have a jigsaw or coping saw for the headstock you will be fine.

My go to bass-

Say you have a mate local to him who could collect. I bet they suddenly go quiet. Avoid this like the plague.

We always play a half step down live for the comfort of the singer, but play standard if doing any recording.

I had the same with an order, status was ‘placed’ but when I eventually spoke to spoke someone that is a complete lie apparently, it just sits in the system for a period of time and then gets booted out, nothing else happens. Crazy way to run a business that on a good day can be great.

Cleared cache but didn’t work, cleared all history and did a hard restart and it’s ok now. Must have been something still there. These scumbags just make life hard for small businesses. But it’s working now, so all good.

Still linking to the scam site for me 😢

Despite being the least OCD person I know, stingrays just bug me. The toilet hole centre with the curved control plate is an abomination. Every curve on the thing is a different radius.

Utterly gutted by this. Same age as me, what a loss.

Really good choice ^^^ I had one and sounded fantastic for the money. For around £100 second hand they are a bargain.

It’s a great album and so different from so much of the stuff around when it was released, a real breath of fresh air.

I love Bloodhound gangs discovery channel, always makes me smile.

Rehearsals should be for getting everyone playing well together NOT to learn the parts but sadly so many people don’t seem to realise this / care.

I am very much a mediocre bass player, I never have any nerves before going on, never had, even the very first time. No idea why. My best mate is a musician of truly stunning ability across several instruments but he hates playing live. He gets nerves so bad he will throw up and feels the stress is not worth it so rarely plays live. It has always struck me as such a waste that a man of such talent suffers in this way, whereas a person like myself can just go ‘F it, it will be ok’ and just get stuck in and enjoy it.