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https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/02/yess-records-feature

I've no doubt that it is! 😀

I've also found them useful, particularly further up the neck, for getting new ideas for stuff, say in tonalities you might not otherwise go, or lines you wouldn't have thought of

I use capos and have done for ever.. Frowned upon ? Probably.. but who cares if it works for what you're doing.

Lifted a couple of pics of LP copies bassified that came up when looking around..

But.. but.. Jaco never needed frets... 😅

Vivaldi was I believe a priest, and his pupils were resident girls from a convent, I guess they focused and devoted quite a bit of time on music both church and secular

The Gibson guitar scale is a tad shorter than the Fender strat scale I believe.. .. it's a very long time ago but the very first bass I ever had was one of those Jap cheapos and it was certainly a very short necked thing, I'd think one of those "shall we make it a guitar or bass" designs. I've had a look on 'tinternet and seems a few on talk bass in the US have done "make a bass from a les paul guitar" Conversions which have worked. I'll do a bit more research and take a view.

Perhaps basic & cheaply made is the new "boutique"

From the "double neck" thread these turned up ... messers Schicke, Fuhrs & Frohling from 1976 I think, progging it up a bit...

A Fender Precision Bass is, and was always a fairly basic workmanlike machine made in a simple fashion, bless it. It never pretended to be a posh hand made "artisan" piece.

Reminds me of one of those Ampeg Devil basses...

I've got some CDs of Telemann with quite a bit of recorder content, some nice bits in Purcell too

Just checked them out, definitely one for the prog rock thread! I'll have a listen to the whole "ticket to everywhere" album when I've got an hour or so!

Indeed! Be interested to see a decent pic of it, if anyone knows who he is / what band he was in?

I know Strat basses have been a bit of a “thing“, wondering if anyone's done a Les Paul (copy obviously!) as a bass? I'm thinking keeping the same scale as the guitar with bridge in the same pos. thereby keeping the frets in the correct place, with perhaps a trapeze tailpiece.. Some of the mega cheapo 70s basses as I recall were simply the stock guitar husk fitted out as a bass. Obviously if you shifted the bridge back to make say a 30" scale the frets would have to go entirely, or be refretted with a revised lay out. Interested to hear if any of you guys have perpetrated anything similar...

I just dug out a few recorders from my junk, a couple of kids descant plastic things and an old wooden Treble. The treble was, in history, I believe the main instrument of the set ,and much music in the 1600s and 1700s that specified "flute" actually meant recorder rather than the thing we now call a flute. I worked out how to play "finger of fudge" just now 😀

Slightly advanced from that, tho not a lot, I believe this is a German guy I don't know who however. Run a Rick and a Les Paul thru a bandsaw and stick em together..

I found one of a youthful Mr Rutherford.. This is the kind of thing I'd do tbh 😁

Irish Eyes Are Smiling, B. Crosby & others

I saw an accordion once that had been gutted and fitted with a cassette recorder, so you could bung in a tape of Jimmy Shand or whoever and mime away, hoping the audience won't notice presumably

I got the little foam mop thing from a bloke I know who does car stuff, probably made for that kind of work, he was buffing up scratched plastic headlamp "glasses" with it

Fair comment !.. Tho they get a bit beyond it sometimes, the one I re-polished looked totally shlte before and quite decent after, so worth giving it a go.

I buffed a very scratchy looking pg with T-cut, which is usually pretty good on its own.. I also in this case used a very soft foam mop / disc thing on a cordless drill to assist. Restored the pg to a pretty good finish

Cor Baby That's Really Free, J. Otway