Seen at the county music service

[nekomatic]

Child 2 is having his piano exam and there are various instruments lying around the practice room. My heart goes out to the kid who has to play this!
 

[PaulThePlug]

did ya offer to sort it out while you were there?...
either needs a shim - or there are no screws holding the neck on, relying on the overhang chocked on the plate!
and maye a drop of lemon oil or Hi Karate!

Poor P... Basschat - Never Puts a Bass Down...

Edited July 15, 2022 by PaulThePlug

[musicbassman]

Nah, that's nothing...

When I were a lad my fingers used to have to catch the bus to get down to the fretboard...........

[Cato]

It's good for them.

 

My second bass felt so easy to play after learning on an 'Axe' bass that had an action higher than that. I've never had that feeling on an instrument since, pure bloss.

 

I had forearms like Popeye too.

Edited July 15, 2022 by Cato

[Crusoe]

18 minutes ago, Cato said:

It's good for them.

 

My second bass felt so easy to play after learning an 'Axe' bass that had an action higher than that. I've never had that feeling on an instrument since, pure bloss.

 

I had forearms like Popeye too.

Axe basses! I haven't heard of them in years. I can remember one or two people buying the guitars.

[Franticsmurf]

2 hours ago, musicbassman said:

Nah, that's nothing...

When I were a lad my fingers used to have to catch the bus to get down to the fretboard...........

You could afford a bus? When I were a lad, I used to hop on t' back of milk float.... etc etc 😀

[Cato]

57 minutes ago, Crusoe said:

Axe basses! I haven't heard of them in years. I can remember one or two people buying the guitars.

 

It was actually not a bad instrument, yes the action was high, but being a complete newbie in the pre internet era I never realised I could have adjusted the BBOT bridge until many years later, so it was largely self inflicted.

Edited July 15, 2022 by Cato

[nekomatic]

9 hours ago, PaulThePlug said:

did ya offer to sort it out while you were there?...

Had to get the young ‘un back to school after, so no, but having shown mrs nekomatic the picture she’s passing it on to her contacts there!

 

Looked like a combo of neck angle, insufficient relief and a bizarrely high nut. It was a medium scale bass too so probably gets inflicted on the youngest and softest-fingered victims 😭

[Bolo]

Looks ok to me, great for learning to work the bass or heavy hitting plectrums.

The pic is of the useless end too.