Grimalkin

I can't get a longer goose neck than I already have. Curse the designer, may a thousand frogs spawn on their living room carpet.

i bought a nice kettle but it's a little bit bulky really, it won't fit under the taps properly. I've got to fill it with a measuring jug. I just wanted to share that with you.

I like Albacores anyway, they have a nice tench on.

You can't really give them a good herring until you put them on your basa.

Albacore. It's a new brand designed for stability, so you don't have to use your tuna as much.

It would be a lot quieter with flatfish.

I can't even... it's something like this...

This is school yard stuff. I won't waste any more time on it. Sorry I made a comment on flat wound strings, it's obviously wounded you deeply. I take it back, all of it.

I've worked for over thirty years as a professional musician, I must be doing something right I would imagine.

I just take pride in my work.

My preference is clean technique, which is a lot of hard work. Nothing comes for nothing.

If your muting is poor it doesn't matter what about tone or feel, bad muting technique through a few hundred watts on rounds sticks out like a sore thumb. You can get away with a little more on flats. I have a dedicated bass with flats, you don't get the extraneous overtones you get with rounds, for some players that is going to appeal. I like the flats sound, but using them constantly would be very vanilla for what I like to play.

It does stand head and shoulders above most basses, I wonder if you have to let the head settle before you tune it?

It took Jaco just as much time to mute Donna Lee as to actually play the line. I play it myself as a warm up, and it is very difficult to mute. Sax lines/wide intervals, lots of string skipping/crossing. I can very much see, why people would choose flats because they are quieter.

It's a simple fact that flats don't have the same winding string noise or preponderance to sympathetic vibration due to slightly higher tension and usually slightly higher mass. Sorry about that.

I never say never, I have seen it mentioned, though after 30 years plus of working as a musician, I can tell for myself. It's a fact that you don't get the same string noise or the same sympathetic resonance you get with rounds, it's all toned down.

It's the kind of thing you keep quiet...

Look at the length of that head-stock... Indeed, it's all fun and games until someone has an eye out Then it's just a game: Hunt the Eye.

Just a touch of neck dive...

Maple is a hard surface in itself, the one little thing I don't like about Jaco's tone, was the slight clack you get fretting an epoxied board. I would leave it as is, clean it up and give it a playing first.

Flats have their own sound, another probable reason is that they hide a multitude of sins as far as muting technique is concerned. I have one bass strung with flats for that sound but I hardly play it.

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