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There's a reason the fretboard marker skulls are the right way up when the bass is vertical and not when horizontal....

Rather more truthfully: "The contrabass flute is one of the rarer members of the flute family..... Its range is similar to the regular concert flute, except it is pitched two octaves lower; the lowest performable note is two octaves below middle C (the lowest C on the cello)" PS.... a fairly uninspiring 10 minutes on YouTube tells me that the Contrabass Clarinet is much better than a Contrabass Flute, and that the Subcontrabass Flute (range roughly the same as a 5-string bass) is an absurdity

I'm sorry that I put you to such effort based on a misunderstanding. By contrabass I wasn't making any reference to the instrument the double bass, but was merely the adjective meaning two octaves lower, the equivalent of a 32' stop on an organ. The modern viola is, like the cello, tuned CGDA, but an octave higher. If an octave lower than a cello could be called bass cello tuning, then it could, logically if absurdly, also be called a contrabass viola tuning. (Cf a contrabassoon being an octave lower than a bassoon and two octaves lower than an oon.) The tiny hint of humour in my post is now thoroughly extinguished by this verbiage, but never mind....

How many of BA60's threads have you added unpleasantly unhelpful posts to? I lost count years ago. It's pretty repulsive to behold. Take a look at yourself.

The Day After Tomorrow ~ Take That

TVC15 ~ David Bowie

In A Hole ~ Jesus And Mary Chain

Please can we can this tuning contrabass viola tuning, thank you

True Faith ~ New Order - I never took blindest bit of notice of the lyrics of this song. Until just now

Plucking an open E or A string on a bass is one thing, playing the pedal notes on a trombone is another.

This thread encouraged to go and investigate the song. Oh dear. But I think I would like to hear it sung by a woman who had changed all the words, replacing the original meaning with a PJ Harvey- / Justine Frischmann-like contempt for inadequate masculinity.

Aces High ~ Iron Maiden

Note how Dee Dee self-effacingly lowers his vocal abilities to match Joey:

He said recently that he doesn't need the Black Album to sell any more, that he was mostly "frugal" with his money, that Metallica already had good advisors before he joined. Assuming my mental arithmetic was working as I looked at Wikipedia, the albums he played on sold 37m copies in the US alone, and he played 950 gigs with them. I don't think he's reduced to living on beans on toast.

If only I had that excuse 🤣

Aged 19, I "ran" the sound there for a friend's gig, which is to say that I absolutely ruined it. The shame still burns. During one song feedback started somewhere and I just couldn't locate it. Utterly useless. Gah.

Slowly and sadly admitting to myself that my hopes of playing the River Plate stadium need to be quietly forgotten ☺️ Still, Royal Albert and Royal Festival Halls once each was good, ditto the Sydney Opera House concert hall and São Paulo opera house. The above-mentioned Dublin Castle I would have been more proud of, tbh, but, you know, you play the cards you're dealt....

The Second Time ~ Kim Wilde (Rolling Stone opined that it was a bit pervy for Marty Wilde and Ricky Wilde these lyrics for her to sing)

When I was 13, having run out of Iron Maiden albums to buy, I spent five of my hard-earned pounds on a Mötley Crue tape, and it did indeed make me very unhappy.

No One Knows You When You're Down And Out ~ Scrapper Blackwell

Too Broke To Overdose ~ Hellbound Glory

Dr Mabuse ~ Propaganda

Leo's final student work, before he moved onto the important stuff

Lets All Make Believe ~ Oasis the great lost b-side

Living in America ~ James Brown