Stub Mandrel

The obvious way to look at it is when do the benefits outweigh the costs? Clearly two variables - how you rate the benefits (convenience, enjoying a gadget) and costs (the actual expense and any potential degradation in sound or reliability). Surprise! Surprise! People are going to have different views!

I'm not too sure, for me I think it was down to crap teachers full stop. Up to the age when the lessons stopped I was open to any type of music or instrument. I enjoyed the lessons where we heard classical music and really enjoyed it when a military band came to the school (the trombonist had a huge pointed nose and a wicked sense of humour). But having a repertoire of Peter and the Wolf, Carnival of the Animals, Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and Sparky the flipping Piano that just get used as class silencers and lessons that just cover the same basics over and again. Imagine trying to learn English with readings from the same four novels, lessons that never get past basic grammar and only ever being asked to read aloud from the same Janet and John books. <Edit> I do know what good music teaching is like, because I took singing lessons. The first lesson explored my voice and my aspirations, and over 10 or 12 weeks explored my range, made me learn to phrase things, made me aware of and control my breathing and revealed that I actually had excellent relative pitch. It was all focused on 'where are you now, where do you want to go and what is holding you back'. The only thing was I had to fake the sight-reading by memorising the melodies, easy as they were always played though first 🙂

I just read the listing

My brother told me it's cheaper to buy a Harley Benton guitar cab and remove the Celestron drivers than buy the same speakers individually...

The 8x10 is 8ohm. You'll have to buy two...

Are we allowed to post 'loopholes'?

Cripes, there are a couple of positive responses but overwhelmingly negative.

No. It was crap music, I don't think we ever got past Clare de la flippin' Lune on the recorder, banging random percussion, awful violin lessons and a choir where I was told I couldn't sing so fosters off. Beat all the joy out of music out of me by 11/12 then luckily I discovered real music.

I can see your face in it 🙂

I'm sure they were p-laying Starless in Morrisons the other day - unless someone has sampled it heavily for a pop song...

But whose tongue... and whose cheek?

I can't take them seriously since I found out it was 'bev-iss' and nothing to do with Beavis and Butthead.

There are long and SS versions

Ah drums. The instrument with social distancing built in...

The clue to the bass is those brass 'coins' that anchor the strings, I just wish I could place them...

That's why you shouldn't mark the fret positions 🙂

I think it's a bunch of people all with different expectations and none of them have any will to step back and try and come up with a compromise.

True

The big difference is that professional kit uses frequencies guaranteed to be clear of interference that you have to book and if you don't, you mustn't be surprised if Ofcom of the local authority come and confiscate it because you are interfering with a pro concert nearby. Of course you are only going to go the true pro route if your living depends on it. That said, even the cheap Aamoon scans sixchannels for interference and chooses the best so interfernce is unlikely (unless someone decides to fly an RC drone around the stadium for example...)