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    My 'acoustic' band doesn't use electric guitars but the acoustic guitars/mandolin/ukulele are amplified and we do have a drummer who mixes sticks and brushes and sometimes acts more as a percussionist than as a drummer. I usually use an EUB and/or a fretless Precision and a Mesa Walkabout combo. I am thinking about a fretless acoustic bass but it will be amplified just the same.
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    [quote name='TommyK' post='1126082' date='Feb 13 2011, 04:22 PM']Oh alright, alright.. I'll go. .....now about the 4 grand...............i don't have it see.....[/quote] Nor me.
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    [quote name='wesfinn' post='1125928' date='Feb 13 2011, 01:41 PM']I have been sent better photographers by the seller. It all looks legit[/quote] And are we going to see them?
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    [quote name='topo morto' post='1125479' date='Feb 12 2011, 09:48 PM']... Having just got a korg pitchblack+, I can actually see it happening... the note starts sharp, comes into tune and then goes flat ... ... Whadd'ya reckon?[/quote] I reckon it's close enough that no one will know.
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    Someone in Dorset needs to go and have a look - and take a camera.
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    [quote name='thumperbob 2002' post='1125437' date='Feb 12 2011, 08:52 PM']Try playing in a soul band where loads of tunes are in Eb without a low b. Even jamerson used a fiver sometimes. The argument is drop tuning where you could go downnhalf a step but still a bit inconvenient. Love my 5s[/quote] I (and many others more competent than me) have played in soul bands, even played in Eb, with an EADG four-string. It's what happened in almost all soul bands for thirty odd years. Jamerson did have a Fender Bass V but it would have been tuned EADGC and one story has it that he hated it so much that he threw it across the studio saying 'Never let me play that again'. I have no idea if this story is true. The massive majority of Motown, Stax, Atlantic etc output would have been done on an EADG bass. Of course five-strings are used a lot more today and if people want to use them or the musical director requires them to be used then fair enough.
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    [quote name='Musicman20' post='1125389' date='Feb 12 2011, 08:19 PM']Get a Bongo[/quote] Six string?
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    [quote name='wateroftyne' post='1125359' date='Feb 12 2011, 08:05 PM']I've said this before, but I was in a band that insisted I tuned down to play Black Velvet because I didn't have a 5-string. I didn't, but I didn't tell them. I just played it at the octave.... They never noticed.[/quote] Excellent. Stealth tuning.
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    [quote name='scalpy' post='1125347' date='Feb 12 2011, 07:50 PM']... Are we going to argue whether a pick or fingers is the best way to play next? ...[/quote] We usually do that in alternate weeks.
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    [quote name='3below' post='1125336' date='Feb 12 2011, 07:41 PM']I keep wondering about stringing one of my basses up B E A D. Just like the power off the E and A strings, so it might be interesting to see if my kit will deliver same on B. Some gigs that use walking bass lines / root + 5th etc would lend themselves to this tuning. Any one done this, any thoughts?[/quote] I had a Precision tuned BEAD for a while. It was fine but I rarely used it. I found I was using an EADG almost always and only using the BEAD when I could conjure up a reason to do so. So eventually I put it back to EADG.
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    [quote name='JTUK' post='1125141' date='Feb 12 2011, 04:57 PM']Any sideman on a big tour would have one in his arsenal and would probably be his go-to instrument A band gig, less so.[/quote] I must be going to all the wrong gigs then because so many only seem to be able to manage a four string.
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    [quote name='JTUK' post='1125116' date='Feb 12 2011, 04:42 PM']to the OP...of course. For most music I'd say a 5 is without doubt the standard but I can see that some here would not agree.[/quote] Which music and which standard is it that you are referring to? Most bassists and most music still appears to be four string.
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    Ricky 4005 EDIT: too slow
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    I've added to the OP: 'On my luggage scales the bass weighs 9.3lbs or 4.2kilos'. ... and PMs replied.
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    Replied to all PMs.
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    No, I don't, but we have this thread about every two weeks ... let's talk about something new like Mark Fleaking Pastorius.
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    Saturday Bump.
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    [quote name='Baldwin' post='1123879' date='Feb 11 2011, 02:36 PM']PM'd [/quote] Replied.
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    Very well used but, apart from scratches, well preserved and in full working order Radial Tonebone Bassbone - [url="http://www.tonebone.com/tb-bassbone.htm"]read about it here[/url]. The outer casing of the box is less well preserved but it is in one piece: 15VDC power supply included and here's the thing itself: MRRP is now in excess of £300 but this is yours for [b]£135 posted[/b].
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    [quote name='Gust0o' post='1123784' date='Feb 11 2011, 01:01 PM']The Wizard 64s will give this some real meat![/quote] Correct!
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    [quote name='cetera' post='1123782' date='Feb 11 2011, 01:00 PM']VERY nice! [/quote] Thanks.
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    [b][u]I'm in Brighton and I'd much prefer a pickup for this, or a meet in Sussex or on the southern half of the M25, as I have no hard case or even gigbag.[/u][/b] OK, you know what it is - a well played but rarely gigged 2008 Squier Classic Vibe Jazz CGRI08003229 (25/10/08, Grand Reward Education and Entertainment, Guang Dong, China) with a couple of alterations: Stock pickups have been replaced with [url="http://www.wizardpickups.co.uk/shop.asp?category=Bass"]Wizard 64s[/url] at £70 for a pair and the routing is copper taped. Jack socket is now a Switchcraft. Pickguard is a white pearl that fits the screwholes but leaves a small gap at the bell plate (see the pics for this) but the original tort guard is supplied. Oddly, one pickguard screw is missing but I'll try to find it or a replacement. I have the tugbar but the white pearl pickguard is not drilled for it. There is a small (about 1/8th inch) dent on the edge of the forearm cutaway which is too small to photograph - it will probably be hidden by your arm anyway. At present wearing GHS Black Nylon flatwounds with red silks - although the pics show La Bella Black Nylons with dark purple silks. Schaller strap locks are fitted; I have the original strap buttons. On my luggage scales the bass weighs 9.3lbs or 4.2kilos. There is no gigbag or case. [u][b]As I said, I'm in Brighton and I'd much prefer a pickup or a meet [/b][/u]although I might eventually be convinced to post at the buyer's expense if I can't get a local sale. I'm looking for a cash sale; the only trades (with cash adjustment) that would interest me are fretless 'acoustic vibe' piezo basses such as Rob Allen, Veillette, etc. - so not much chance of that. At [url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/squier-classic-vibe-60s-jazz-bass/20779"]GAK these are now £319[/url] without, of course, the Wizards and other alterations. This can be yours for [b][size=3][s]£240[/s] £230[/size][/b] collected.
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    I sold Bob some GHS Black Nylons and the transaction was as smooth as the strings.
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    [quote name='Clarky' post='1123378' date='Feb 10 2011, 11:08 PM']So is this still for sale? [/quote] It may be for sale in the near future.
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    [quote name='Etienne' post='439401' date='Mar 19 2009, 04:28 PM']Did you buy this then Dave? [/quote] Yes I did ... sorry it took me nearly two years to see your post.
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