What do you own?

[DarkHeart]

2 x 5 string, 1 x 6 string, 6 x 4 string, all basses, I only use the 6 string to stretch my fingers over a wide fretboard.

[bazzbass]

2 Jazzes , 2 Ps , one acoustic

all are fretted. 3 are Fenders

[Bilbo]

4 string, 7 string and a double bass. And five guitars.

[fiatcoupe432]

1 x 6 string fretless one fretted and one 4 string

[fiatcoupe432]

you also should do a separete poll for binky_bass

6 ,7, 8, 9, 10 , strings ahahahah

[Painy]

Only fretted 5 strings (x4). Been Playing 22 years and it's been 5 strings for the last 18 apart from a brief dabble with a 6 so that's where I'm comfortable .

[louisthebass]

2 x Electric 5 strings
1 x Electric 4 string
1 x Acoustic 5 string

[PawelG]

2 four strings. One P and one P/J.

[FinnDave]

All four string fretted, couple of Gibsons, mostly Fenders.

[Delberthot]

I've always played what's been needed at the time but over the years I've played 4, 5, 6, 8 & 12vers fretted - 4, 5, & 6 fretless, 4 & 5 electroacoustic, 4 string semi-acoustic and double bass.

[CamdenRob]

Sixes for me... one fretted one fretless.

I like to take both to gigs depending on how far I've got to travel as certain songs suit both. Both of them in a double gigbag is bloody heavy though, so I usually just take the fretted.

I tend to rotate them for rehearsals, it's useful to see which suits which song

[scannerman]

Used to have
3 x 4 strings (1 fretless)
4 x 5 strings (1 fretless)
2 x 6 strings.

Far too many , so down sized and up marketted to jyst ...2x 5 strings....1 fretted, 1 fretless

Happy as larry.....

[ivansc]

I have 2 four and a Bassix Jazza electric upright. Traded my acoustic double bass in for it.

[josie]

2 x fretted 5 (GMR)
1 x fretted 4 (Jazz Aerodyne)
1 x fretless 4 (GMR)
1 x fretted 5 acoustic (Michael Kelly)
1 x fretless 5 acoustic (Michael Kelly)

All get played, in one situation or another. I'd upgrade the fretless 4 to a GMR fretless 5 if I could find one. Much prefer to play 5s, but not likely to be gigging them for a while, as the band I've just joined has an ambient streak which calls for the electric fretless, and the best contrast for the other songs is the Aerodyne.

[SimonEdward]

4 x four-string fretted and a four-string fret-less. I owned a Hohner B2A V (five-string) once, but never got on with the low B...

[BigRedX]

3 x Five string fretted
2 x Four string fretted
1 x Five string fretless
1 x Four string fretless
1 x Six string fretted

I expect by the end of next year I'll only have 5 string basses.

[EliasMooseblaster]

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1506715095' post='3380692']
I'm probably going to be the only person to vote 'other' .
[/quote]

Nope, one more here! I have an 8-string in my arsenal (4-string double-course rather than a particularly extravagant ERB!) Other than that I am quite boring though - one fretless four-string, and probably more fretted fours than I really need...

Edited October 2, 2017 by EliasMooseblaster

[Graham]

2x fretted 5
1x fretted 4

If the 4 string were stolen/damaged I doubt I'd replace it with another 4.

[vantagepointrocks]

Just got the one 4 string Charvel bass that I bought back in 1994.

[Grangur]

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1506715095' post='3380692']
I'm probably going to be the only person to vote 'other' .
[/quote]
Nahh... Binkybass finds anything with less than 8 strings slightly lacking.

I've got: 4 and 5 string fretted and 1x 4 string fretless.

Still really tempted to go for a 6 fretless.

[toneknob]

Some fretted 4s
One fretless 4
One "acoustic" 4 (fretless, hollow body, tubey onboard preamp)
One "other" (double-neck 4/12-string guitar)

[Ashweb]

3 x 4 Strings

2 Active, 1 Passive, all fretted

[Sean]

15% of the total is 4-string fretless. I'm surprised by that, I thought it would be less. That means that one in seven are four string fretless basses.

[T-Bay]

[quote name='Sean' timestamp='1506978341' post='3382533']
15% of the total is 4-string fretless. I'm surprised by that, I thought it would be less. That means that one in seven are four string fretless basses.
[/quote]
It's only the number of people that have them not the number they have. So they could have ten fretted and one fretless but would count as one each on the scale.

[fretmeister]

Two 5 strings
Two 4 strings
1 uke bass

4 guitars.