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Given how much replacement 1024 pickups cost, I predict that small piece of chrome will be priced c. £2,000

When my BB424 arrived I was convinced that the vendor had blown cigarette smoke into the packaging before sealing it up. I was relieved when smell left the bass in just a day or two. Getting the smell out of a case, though...... yeuchhh

if I had (a) that bass and (b) the wherewithal to do things like this I would hide two more volume pots inside the bass and rewire the toggle switch to make the options neck / full neck plus some bridge / full bridge plus some neck. Go on, you know you want to

Thanks for bringing this my attention — it seems that chambering would do to a bass exactly what I don't want. Useful to get that learnt

I want bass guitar A. It's available, and I have the money to buy it. Someone has suggested that instead I buy Bass B in a few months time, and buy Bass A in a few years time. Guess what I'm going to do?

If you've the necessary pile of cash, what range of tones will be able you get out of it while you wait patiently a few years for a Wal?

My third (and final!) suggestion is a piece by Josquin Desprez, designed to be sung very early on Christmas morning, with an opening line which means something like "Outside the natural order of things....." iirc. It's a big but controlled texture, and really nails the sense of something extraordinary and wonderous: Earlier than Palestrina, but on the same page.

11/06/1982 Geoffrey Douglas Madge (piano) Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht Sadly no sign of it on YouTube

I am one of not very many people on this planet who have sat through an entire performance of this piece — I think at the time it was still only the 19th performance ever. The audience wasn't much bigger than 19 either. After a while the concept of notes slips away, and later even just the waves of notes start to meld into one vast and weirdly calming whole. It was also weirdly addictive - the pianist was doing another performance not very far away a few days later and I was very tempted to go to that too. Only the long journey back home on my own put me off. I guess after a while the music puts you in its own place. I had a similar sense after a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard gig.

If you dip in and out of Bartok you'll find that element of being deliberately disconcerting comes and goes — sometimes the harsh noises are just there for the fun of it, not trying to discomfort, just simply being itself. Bartok claimed that every last thing in his music is taken from folk music, and in his awkward rhythms and harsh harmonies, you can always hear the happy folk player digging into his violin with a gleam in his eye.

I've just tried to calculate how long a Bach Requiem would be — about the same as the Opus Clavicembalisticum? Definitely not long is this lovely little sonata by Scarlatti, who I've grown to prefer to Bach, as it seems I prefer cheekiness and facetiousness to godliness, at least in my baroque instrumental music:

My two favourite works

Some people with no knowledge of classical music find this stuff from the fringes easier to enjoy than people with a solid knowledge of the repertoire — not being very aware of what's different, they just find it exciting. Hence my asking the OP, who after all likes Zappa.

How do the first 2 minutes and 11 seconds of this make you feel? Serious question.

There's a G&L CLF Research 750 Series L-1000 on the Sales Corner which is 8.8 lbs. Let me fetch the link..... Here we are. Advert says 8lb 8oz, but last year the NBD thread I was remembering said 8.8 lb. Still, under 9 lbs is under 9 lbs.

Just bought a custom set of Chromes from Strings Direct, 45-65-85-105. They were £79. Late 2020 I bought a 45-60-80-105 set from them, which I think was about £62. Given general inflation and the recent shortages of the ribbon steel needed for flatwounds, this seems about right. Though can't help recalling that the 49-109 set of LaBellas I bought 6 months ago from Bass Direct were half that....

I often think that the worst thing about Yorkshire is the bores who bang on about how great Yorkshire is. Are you the worst thing about Newcastle? Don't worry, I'm joking, I know that the worst thing about Newcastle is the pitiful state that the Brown Ale is in these days.

Why are people trying to turn this lovely thread into just another BC who-can-dislike-something-the-most-fervently contest?!

Would be interest to hear how you feel the 2EQ differs in character (if at all, beyond missing a mids control)

YouTube insisted on telling me how to recreate the synth bass line from Get Into The Groove ....and that made me wonder if anyone had done a bass cover of it that was beyond half-decent ....and what I found was something else ....really something

Ooh, I know, is it: a hat ?

Mozart Piano Concertos. When I was a teenager I thought they were shallow and trite and obvious. Pass the Bartok, please. Now I'm older and more battered by life and more than sufficiently acquainted with the pain within, nothing is better than a nice shallow trite obvious Mozart Piano Concerto.

They're both listed as G&L's usual 1⅝" (41.3mm) with a Slim C profile (which isn’t so usual)