EssentialTension

I wholly agree with the point you are making but with a caveat ... Matt Munro was a great singer, a great British crooner, who had Sinatra as one of his fans. He's not bad, you maybe just don't like that kind of music.

If you're 'out of touch' then how can you know 'it's utter drivel'?

My dad had no interest in music.

I couldn't find your list of 200 but I don't understand why you would expect to be 'in touch' ... if you hadn't spent the year seeking out and listening to at least some new music. Alternatively, you could say to yoursef, let's listen to some stuff from this list that I am not familiar with. Perhaps I'll even like some of it. My method is to get my 25 year old son to do me a list every Christmas of newer bands/artists to listen to. Sometimes they are not so new. Here's some from his list this Xmas ... Pastor T.L. Barrett Makaya McCraven Mick Jenkins Sampa the Great Sudan Archives Oshun Children of Zeus Tirzah Yves Tumor Neneh Cherry GAIKA Eli Keszler Khruangbin ... I hadn't heard of any of them, except Neneh Cherry, but I am working on it now.

According to Wikipedia, the city of Yekaterinburg was called Sverdlovsk from 1924 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The region/oblast is still called Sverdlovsk. So your assumption was not incorrect.

I'm better at Greek than Russian but I wouldn't strictly go as far as to say I can actually read it.

And (if my Russian is at all reliable, which it may not be, because I studied it for only six months in 1969) the bass guitar was built in the Sverdlovsk factory of the Ural Musical Instrument company.

I was very fortunate to visit Bulgaria a few weeks ago. Three days in Plovdiv and two in Sofia. Very nice, great food, drink, and culture ... and better looking than that bass.

Or from 2000 ...

A song, a lyric and a melody, can be arranged for any instrumentation. You can even take liberties with the lyrics and the melody if you're cheeky.

The TF is one of very few basses that I have always regretted selling on. It was top quality. The lack of pickup blend is a shame but not a deal-breaker and the J pup is useful and essential if you want that Jaco tone. However, I rarely used the J pup and, because of that, I might choose a nice custom colour MIJ - if I had that actual choice.

Sorry to be pedantic, although the point you intend is correct, it's not 'gauge' as such that matters but 'mass per unit length of string'. Two strings of the same gauge can be of different 'mass per unit length' if they are constructed differently. And so not all, for example, 45-65-85-105 sets necessarily have the same tension because they are constructed in different ways.

I think you are talking about compliance not tension ... some explanation of the science below, if anyone is interested: https://www.liutaiomottola.com/formulae/tension.htm https://www.liutaiomottola.com/myth/perception.htm

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It's more complicated than you might think ... 😉

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It's all in the compressor fingers. There you go. 😣

Thanks Mart, I feel better now.

Thank you. But I expect someone will be along soon to explain why I am wrong.

General rule number one: all other things being equal, a 30" scale bass will be lower tension than a 34" scale bass (i.e. if at same pitch, and same string mass per unit length). But, general rule number two: all other things being equal, the shorter the string you are plucking the less compliant it will be - especially if you get nearer to the bridge - even though tension on a string remains the same all along its length. Hence, a 30" scale bass might be lower tension than the 34" scale yet be experienced as less compliant.

I'v played that song but never heard two basses. And by the look of the video one fretted, one fretless.

If I remember correctly, it has two Jazz pickups refitted at an angle to cover E-A strings separately from D-G strings; so likely bi-amped thus explaining the extra control knobs.