Bridgehouse

I’m going to stick to basses for now...

I saw you only last week snurgling a Warwick thumb

You could have been a bit more discreet about it

...out?

Funnily enough the smell is often dictated by the glue they used to stick the case lining down with....

Basssniff.co.uk anyone?

At the end of the day, a bass is made up of a set of component parts that each add to the “sound”. In the main, these components are pretty much alike from one bass to another - strings, bridge, tuners, wood, pickups and how they are made/wound. We formulate and process information in our brain from a mixture of sensory sources - I’m not surprised there was little discernible difference in an audio only test as nobody had the visual cues that our brain often uses to interpret sound..

Which is exactly why I don’t understand the snobbery at all

Shergold marathon and Trace? Luxury.. I want a bass that will shred my fingers and an amp that is more farty and wheezy than Albert Steptoe

Again, if people are upfront about the motivation for buying then, hey, why not? It’s the snobbery I don’t like. “Oh, I wouldn’t play a squier - it’s just so amateur”

Yes exactly. Maybe I need to start gigging with a Marlin Sidewinder bass and an old Torque amp..

Clearly needs the floggle toggle adjusting

Tsk! Come come now old chap - you can do better than that It wasn’t a comb and paper but a comb and cellophane that Jimi improvised a Kazoo with..

I don’t have a problem with people who want to collect instruments - it’s their money etc. But I do think that there’s a rather odd degree of snobbery around instrument brands and prices.. “You must be good, you have a £2k bass” or “You can’t be that good if you only have a Squier” etc..

I suspect some of our familiarity with harmonics and our own comfort with certain frequencies relates to the human voice as well: (taken from Wikipedia article on harmonics) Many acoustic oscillators, such as the human voice or a bowed violin string, produce complex tones that are more or less periodic, and thus are composed of partials that are near matches to integer multiples of the fundamental frequency and therefore resemble the ideal harmonics and are called "harmonic partials" or simply "harmonics" for convenience

Steady on there! One step at a time...

I reckon there’s a good chance it would be in tune

Someone needs to buy him a ruler. And some drill bits. And a workbench. And some new glasses

No wonder you like that Guild..

Not at all. It’s a good question to ask why the Precision is so ubiquitous. My opinion is not because it was First (because it wasn’t) but because of a unique formula of playability, sound, robustness and reputation

But to walk it you need to stand behind it - so it would have to be long enough to clear it’s body and tail..

That’s still about 15’ up...

You must have had a reeeeally long lead...

I gave you a sensible response! (And a picture)