EssentialTension

[quote name='tony_m' timestamp='1498064684' post='3322324'] Don't forget to throw in the old classic "How long does it take to tune a banjo? Nobody knows...... " at some point. (I should probably point out that my step-daughter plays banjo in her alt-folk band and this is part of her regular stage-banter. Even her banjo-playing father has been known to smile wryly on occasion... ). [/quote] Last Sunday, old strings off, cleaned, oiled fingerboard, restrung, tuned = about 30 minutes but I wasn't rushing and I swear it was in tune.

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1498074094' post='3322406'] I'm intrigued by these... [url="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000VTBP5O/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_3PSszbBYRC4SH"]https://www.amazon.c...i_3PSszbBYRC4SH[/url] I suspect for £12 a set they're not up to much, but has anyone any experience of them? I'm dipping my toe in the flatwound world and as a 'suck it and see' excercise on my cheapo Jazz Bass copy I wonder if they're worth a punt? [/quote] It says roundwood in the ad and on the packet.

Music stands could have same image/pattern as the kick drum front skin.

Always needing to stick with the same tension of factory fitted string could also limit someone choosing to tune their bass differently, say Eb-Ab-Db-Gb or B-E-A-D on a four string or E-A-D-G-C on a five string ... or even using a D-tuner on the E string. Besides which I always use flatwound strings and it would be very rare to buy a new bass factory fitted with flats. Lakland did that for me on request but the last time I bought a new bass and it automatically came with flats was 1976.

As has already been hinted, a bass/guitar neck with a trussrod is designed to accept a range of string tensions. Hence, there is too 'light tension and also too 'heavy' tension but in the middle there is a range of different tensions acceptable to that neck/trussrod arrangement. By the way, tension (at a particular pitch and scale length) is dependent not on gauge as such but on mass per unit length of string. Hence, same gauge but different construction can lead to different tension.

With the Miracles ... [url="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xiaidq_smokey-robinson-the-miracles-you-ve-really-got-a-hold-on-me-bring-it-on-home-to-me-live_music"]http://www.dailymoti...o-me-live_music[/url]

We have had it [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/186876-jamerson-live-at-the-apollo-with-the-miracles-1963"]before[/url] but some years ago ... but well worth having again. Although some people are going to be upset by the music stands.

Sold Colin a book, very smooth, recommended.

Sold Chris a string, smooth exchange, recommended.

Sold Davie some used strings, very smooth, recommended.

Sold Gary some strings, all very neat, recommended.

Sold Byron some strings, very smooth, recommended.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1497271035' post='3316908'] The last time I was there was 20 years ago for a County match. With the game pretty much wrapped up there was Curtley Ambrose guarding the boundary in front of us. A bunch of us invited him to come and have a beer with us - so he stepped over the rope and did exactly that. [/quote] Didn't some English cricketer get spotted having a quick drag on a spliff while fielding on the boundary at some Caribbean ground? Or am I hallucinating?

[quote name='markdavid' timestamp='1497281836' post='3317001'] The guitar amp was a Marshall 100watt !!! [/quote] There's the problem.

It's the one pedal I too use constantly.