Swapping between scale lengths - a weird discovery.

[fretmeister]

I have 3 shorties, 2 err, longies, and 3 medies (midies?)

 

I find it dead easy to swap between the long and the short ones, but then going to the medium scale throws me off and I have to look at the fretboard. I have no idea why this is. Maybe it confuses my brain that there is a halfway point.

It's bothering me to the point that I'm thinking of selling off the medium scale basses. 

 

Is it just me?

[mikebass456]

I'm pretty exclusively on short scale now.  I find them more intuitive to play than medium and long scale ( and being only 5'5" tall, the short scale basses make me look a bit taller too 😆😆)

[tauzero]

When I played with a ceilidh band, I used to take an NS WAV-4 EUB (42" scale), a Warwick Thumb fretless (34" scale) and an Ashbory Mk I (18" scale, fretless) and swap between them as I fancied. Didn't have any problems.

[mikebass456]

42"??? I'd need a ladder!!!😆😆😆

[lemmywinks]

Had exactly the same issue and sold the 32" scale bass I briefly had, could never get used to it.

 

I can go between 35", 34" and right down to 24.75" and just play normally, I sometimes play my daughter's 30" bass and am fine on that but 32" just completely threw me. Just felt weird.

Edited Tuesday at 14:04 by lemmywinks