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TSanders
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dlloyd said:On ethical terms or on artistic interpretation?
Both!!
Psychicpet
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sorry jack, but I must vehemently disagree . I don't really dig the colour BUT lordy-ba-gordy that'd be a helluva bass to try and tame!bovinehost said:
ps. the headstock would have to be a 4+2 though, it'd probably balance better and maybe swap out the standard tuners for ultra-light clover leafs
AnthonyD
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I could never understand how one feels comfortable getting their fingers around a neck so wide...
Psychicpet said:sorry jack, but I must vehemently disagree . I don't really dig the colour BUT lordy-ba-gordy that'd be a helluva bass to try and tame!
ps. the headstock would have to be a 4+2 though, it'd probably balance better and maybe swap out the standard tuners for ultra-light clover leafs
Yeah, you'll probably have noticed that I cropped it at the 11th fret!
The position markers were hard enough work (I ripped them off the HS sterling) I chickened out of doing the headstock.
bassmonkeee
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TheDirtyMoocher said:
I'll let you know if it works.
I've got a set of TI Flats on the way that will be set up EADGC on the Black Sapphire Bongo. In theory, it should be fine, I think. I mean, the strings will still be at the same differences in intervals--I'm just moving the tuning up a 4th.
bassmonkeee
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dlloyd said:Best I could do right now...
That looks great. If I didn't know better, it'd pass for a prototype. The thought of a six string neck for a three hour gig gives me heartburn, though. My wrists ache just looking at it.
Psychicpet
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still looks cool though
as for wrapping your fingers around... it's not really around the neck unless you've got mitts like Chuck Rainey but more the added options of more notes closer together like vertical patterns on the fingerboard as opposed to horizontal/linear type stuff plus I'd get to fulfill my delusions of being like Anthont J. and Pattitucci
bovinehost
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I'm always happy! It's a side effect of owning Heinz.
Aw, that's sweet.
I've always found the whole Six String Issue to be funny. I've had experience with a lot of fellars that play fivers... but don't like the idea of a six string. To be honest I think some of the folks here on the forum use that policy. What is that all about?
I started up on a fiver that a friend of the sis had and the uprights I would sneak into the music class and play, so I can't help but enjoy fivers deep down. Especially the SR5, and I don't say that to be fanboyish, honestly there's just something about that bass design that I think is just too good to be true, it's the most comfortable design for a fiver ever I'd say. The problem I have with six strings is the idea of adding a higher note.
Now, everybody knows that without detuning, a standard four string can hit nothing lower than E, which makes makes adding a string a practical and really, the only solution if you want to avoid tuning down. However, aside from, what, the seventh fret down, on your C string? You could play all those higher notes up the neck on your G.
Given the added bulkyness I just don't think it's worth it, as opposed to the neccesity of a five.
I've always found the whole Six String Issue to be funny. I've had experience with a lot of fellars that play fivers... but don't like the idea of a six string. To be honest I think some of the folks here on the forum use that policy. What is that all about?
I started up on a fiver that a friend of the sis had and the uprights I would sneak into the music class and play, so I can't help but enjoy fivers deep down. Especially the SR5, and I don't say that to be fanboyish, honestly there's just something about that bass design that I think is just too good to be true, it's the most comfortable design for a fiver ever I'd say. The problem I have with six strings is the idea of adding a higher note.
Now, everybody knows that without detuning, a standard four string can hit nothing lower than E, which makes makes adding a string a practical and really, the only solution if you want to avoid tuning down. However, aside from, what, the seventh fret down, on your C string? You could play all those higher notes up the neck on your G.
Given the added bulkyness I just don't think it's worth it, as opposed to the neccesity of a five.
bovinehost
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It isn't the 'idea' that I don't like, it's that I look at it this way: I play bass. I'm not a wild-ass Jaco-worshipping solo bassist, I'm Mister In The Pocket guy, looking for the spaces and not just the notes. Now I play fivers, as I've said before, because of songs in D. I think regular D on the A string sounds not quite right, so my problems with D have been solved by playing fivers.
I could count on one hand the number of times I've actually used low B and thought it wasn't a mistake.
I can see soloists and wankers (not that there's anything wrong with that) and guys who play with, I don't know, Bela Fleck, say, using all those high notes on a C string. I can even listen to it and think, at least for a while, "Hey, that's cool."
Then I go back to perfecting some old Stax tune and never think too hard about even my G string.
Sixers? More power to 'em. Me? I'm old enough and know myself well enough to realize that it just isn't me.
Psychicpet
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yep, i don't think i have one gig that would make need of a 6 BUT at home and the odd time i do some wacko stuff at my local coffee shop a 6 would be interesting but as i've stated before, i've got a Sterling on order and really am looking forward to migrating back to a 4 (i'll still need the 5s to cover most of my regular gigs though)
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bassmonkeee said:My wrists ache just looking at it.
My shoulders and back too !
MNF
bovinehost said:
I do know what you mean here. Though I often feel torn between the idea of just being a good bassist and the strange pressure that somehow got placed on me to be able to do obsurd crazy solo stuff and use my bass to reap the field as well.
bassmonkeee said:That looks great. If I didn't know better, it'd pass for a prototype. The thought of a six string neck for a three hour gig gives me heartburn, though. My wrists ache just looking at it.
Wait until you see the next (and probably the last) one...
Jazzbassman23
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Is this newspeak for trying to get laid?Samingo said:
