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  1. EssentialTension
    I'm unconvinced by string-through, let alone semi-through.
  2. EssentialTension
    What is a 'semi-through bridge'?
  3. EssentialTension
    One. Two if really necessary. Three? Nah.
  4. EssentialTension
    It seems longer.
  5. EssentialTension
    I have Parkinson's disease but I wasn't formally diagnosed until late 2019 when I was approaching sixty-eight. Once I had a formal diagnosis, I gave up gigging (which happened to coincide with the Covid lockdowns). Of course, many of my Parkinson's symptoms predated any formal diagnosis by many years and included coordination of left and right hands and coordination of fingers, particularly on left hand. The difficulties were more noticeable on double bass which I had only taken up playing aged fifty-eight. The song where I first noticed difficulties happened to be Tami Lynn's 'I'm Gonna Run Away From You'; not a difficult song which I had been playing for some years. I do still play at home once a week with a guitarist friend, but I am too unreliable for gigging. On the issue of genetics, my understanding is that while Parkinson's can have a genetic basis it is not necessarily so.
  6. EssentialTension
    I appreciate that Basschatters have to post about something .... but really .... when should threads such as this old topic just call it a day?? It's embarrassing when everything has already been said and yet we get the same old topic, on tour again, every few months, or every year at the least .... Please .... It's had its time .... enough is enough. No? 😜
  7. EssentialTension
    I expect it's lots of people.
  8. EssentialTension
    I rather like him and it's clear he was a big influence on Bowie's singing style. Obviously YMMV.
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  10. EssentialTension
    If you don't like it then don't go to the gigs ... because, after all, they probably aren't going to your gigs.
  11. EssentialTension
    Expensive but looks great.
  12. EssentialTension
    Fretless is fine. Almost everyone won't notice, including the band. As long as you're roughly in tune.
  13. EssentialTension
    Beautiful ... I smiled the whole way through.
  14. EssentialTension
    I have a Hofner Club Ignition strung with Pyramid Flats which sounds great. I'd call it very good value for money. But it doesn't have the teacup knobs or the Hofner logo on the upper horn. Are they additions?
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    https://www.daddario.com/upload/tension_chart_13934.pdf
  18. EssentialTension
    Yes, an approximation.
  19. EssentialTension
    Yes, but it's not the weight of the whole string that matters, it's the mass per unit length.
  20. EssentialTension
    Compliance refers to the feel, the flexibility, of the string under the fingers (or pick) and is often confused with tension. Tension is fixed for the whole string between bridge saddle and nut - given (1) fixed mass per unit length, (2) fixed scale length, and (3) fixed pitch. But, although tension remains and must remain the same all along the string length, a string is more compliant when played at or around the 12th fret than it is when played near to the bridge. Like tension, but not in the same way, compliance is affected by internal string construction - e.g. hexcore/roundcore - but possibly by other factors that have no effect on tension such as break angle at the nut. Read all about it here ... http://www.liutaiomottola.com/myth/perception.htm ... and here ... https://www.liutaiomottola.com/formulae/tension.htm
  21. EssentialTension
    Not merely by weighing the string, no. You'd need to calculate mass per unit length of the string and allow for any variation in pitch and/or scale length. And it would still not tell you about compliance.
  22. EssentialTension
    To me that seems a lot of trouble to go to when you could just buy the right scale strings.
  23. EssentialTension
    That's a total mess. And surely you'd need to play it with a pick if it was playable at all.
  24. EssentialTension
    And how much would the binned dampers fetch today on ebay?
  25. EssentialTension
    Surely the whole thing doesn't merely hint at 60s design but is actual 60s design.
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