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    GBP 8.84 million.
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    That's good. They are doing rather well out of it, after all.
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    Oh, I don't know if the world is any madder for doing this kind of thing. Some people have more money than others. Some have more talent and renown than others. In this case, the latter is being rewarded by the former, and a couple of charities get a decent chunk of the proceeds. Is that really such a terrible redistribution of values?
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    I'd want to see the condition report first. If the neck has been repaired, that might diminish the value.
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    A good auction is excellent entertainment. Going to an auction preview and then the auction itself is worth doing, and if you are not buying it is free. If you are buying, it is very much not free.
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    There's a statement in the sale room notice. Knopfler intends to donate at least 25% of the total hammer price received to the British Red Cross Society and the Tusk Trust.
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    I find all of this perplexing. As far as I can tell, it has never been so easy to buy well-built equipment for such a small outlay. Nor has it ever been so easy to assemble a high-quality gigging or recording setup for so little. There are obvious instances of drastic price increases, but generalising from those particulars distorts the picture beyond recognition. Even the prices of new, US-built Fender Strats are comparable with the deep discounts available in 1987, when sterling was more than 20% stronger against the dollar than it is today, and VAT was lower.
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    The Jesus and Mary Chain bought them all.
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    David Byrne, How Music Works.
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    I completely agree with this. I used it once within a reference to Londoners born within the sound of Bow Bells, and it was somehow replaced with an asinine, infantile euphemism that any schoolchild would associate with an actual penis. This did rather alter the intended meaning. That is a good standard to aim for.
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    I have a favour to ask of anyone who might have an Avid Eleven Rack. I used to own one but it died about four years ago. I now use Fractal units (Axe-FX III, FM3). I need to try to replicate the "Secret Journeys" patch from the Eleven Rack, so I would be very grateful if anyone could tell me what the signal chain is, which effects are involved, and what the settings are on those effects. Many thanks in advance to anyone who can provide information.
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    Certainly not before she has had her breakfast.
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    My dear Tim, it’s like rain on your wedding day. That said, I am saddened by the lack of statistical evidence for your allegation of widespread misapprehension. Also, I was hoping for a revival of WD-37, which supposedly increases heft and is positively superb for metal but is dangerously volatile when mixed with tung oil.
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    You are a constant in an ever-changing world, Tim. Happy Christmas, old son.
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    Incorrect use of the original WD-40, perhaps.
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    Good one, Tim According to legend, Americans spend billions on funding sponsored research projects at major research universities. The British just use jokes. I very stupidly spend hundreds of dollars on the technology that I am using for this post. If I were a Russian troll, I would be able to do it with a pencil. That one is definitely true, Douglas. Ever since he did it, no one has been turned to stone. Pretty compelling evidence. I should probably stop inhaling WD-40.
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    When it comes to playing the bass, I am all thumbs in so many ways.
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    Excellent work. I have two Warwick Thumbs, a bolt-on on the west coast and a neck-through here in New York. I suppose if I were a bassist I might find this inadequate, but I simply joined Basschat in 2019 to get some information and now it's like the Hotel California.
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    I would certainly do that. (I am in the US, which might cool your ardour a little!) Good question. I suspect the former, although I don't know whether the difference would be noticeable without measuring the pickup locations.
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    It looks like a regular Thumb body with a shorter neck bolted on. At one time, I think Warwick offered several scale options for their bolt-on Thumbs at an additional cost. I have only ever seen one for sale, however, and have never heard one. This makes buying an unreturnable and quite expensive instrument more speculative than usual.
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    Many thanks for this very useful précis. I'm looking at a 2013 Custom Shop short-scale bolt-on Thumb that is currently for sale. I suspect it has a 30.75" scale. The Custom Shop currently makes a 32" scale Thumb, and a single-cut shorty; prices on request and undoubtedly extremely affordable. My sole bass at the moment is a bolt-on Thumb that is currently in storage thousands of miles away. I'm thinking of getting something different from that, such as a 1980s neck-through, but the short-scale Thumb intrigues me. (I have room in the apartment for precisely one bass, so the usual Basschat advice, i.e. "get both", does not apply in this instance.)
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    Does anyone here have any experience with a 30" scale Warwick Thumb? I am curious about the tone and the ergonomics.
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    Mood swings.
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    I regret failing to buy a headless Status before moving to the US 20 years ago. That was a massive oversight.
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