Teleporter accident, two basses melded into one. The horror..

[daz]

This makes a chapman stick look like a pencil.

[attachment=61122:warr_bass.jpg]

[chris_b]

Good if you have a canoe.

[AndyTravis]

Is that a 'Warr'?

It'd take some serious amount of practice to get going on that!

[Ian Savage]

Ah, dammit, 'Teleporter'! I'd have slapped that as the model name on my F*nder bitsa guitar if I'd come up with it first....might have to build another one now

[Delberthot]

So is it left or right handed? I'm assuming the neck dive would be so bad you'd have to play it with the neck pointing towards the floor

[Ou7shined]

If only it were a 15 string instead of a 14.

[Grand Wazoo]

You're going to need to remortgage your house to be able to restring that every 4 weeks!

[Doctor J]

No friends? We've got the instrument for you!

[ezbass]

[quote name='chris_b' post='985107' date='Oct 12 2010, 12:58 AM']Good if you have a canoe.[/quote]
Who needs a canoe? You could surf on that puppy.

[Truckstop]

Only 2 trussrods?!
That's a bit risky isn't it?
I wonder how long it'll be until we start seeing basses with more trussrods than strings.

Truckstop

[ahpook]

you're gonna need a preamp with that.

[sprocketflup]

[quote name='Delberthot' post='985141' date='Oct 12 2010, 02:00 AM']So is it left or right handed? I'm assuming the neck dive would be so bad you'd have to play it with the neck pointing towards the floor[/quote]Neck dive? its just a neck!

[Hamster]

I was going to move this topic, but I can't find the "Half a Piano" forum.

[tauzero]

If only it was fretless.

[Steff]

Al'right... would you actually call that thing a "bass"? I wouldn't...

And where is the thin line when a bass stops being a "bass" and becomes something else? 5 strings - Lovely, but not classic... 6 - ok, I'll accept that, especially when playing fusion, jazz and similar... but what about 7, 8 and 49str? ...

[ThomBassmonkey]

What's the point? Surely no one would be able to fret the higher set of strings consistently enough for it actually to be playable?

[fillerbunny]

All joking aside, yeah, that's not a bass but a Warr Guitar. Played like the Chapman Stick, by two handed tapping (random image off the web):

Edited October 13, 2010 by fillerbunny

[Low End Bee]

It's a cunningly disguised shove ha'penny board, I win.

[lanark]

[quote name='fillerbunny' post='986536' date='Oct 13 2010, 05:46 AM']All joking aside, yeah, that's not a bass but a Warr Guitar. Played like the Chapman Stick, by two handed tapping (random image off the web):


[/quote]

Top marks for ingenuity, but my lord, that looks ridiculous.

[velvetkevorkian]

Want. Can't play, but want.

[fillerbunny]

[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='986646' date='Oct 13 2010, 11:50 AM']Want. Can't play, but want.[/quote]

Who wouldn't! I do think the Stick looks cooler, though.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

It's human nature to fear anything we can't understand, so I'd say "Kill it with fire"

[Lfalex v1.1]

[quote name='fillerbunny' post='986667' date='Oct 13 2010, 10:13 AM']Who wouldn't! I do think the Stick looks cooler, though.

[/quote]

That's because Tony Levin's playing it!!!

[BottomEndian]

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='986676' date='Oct 13 2010, 10:21 AM']That's because Tony Levin's playing it!!![/quote]
The man can do no wrong.

Oh...

...apart from Funk Fingers:

[MB1]

[quote name='daz' post='985102' date='Oct 12 2010, 12:49 AM']This makes a chapman stick look like a pencil.

[attachment=61122:warr_bass.jpg][/quote]

MB1.
"Is it a Trouser Press?"