bloke wrote:fwiw, I own one of these...Besides the pick-up that is built into the bridge, I added a Schaller magnetic pick-up on to the end of the fretboard. I play it through my old '75 Ampeg flip-top tube amp.
Is that the same scale as a "standard (aka 3/4) upright bass?
Yes. That's why the bass is so thin; they're a bitch to go gigging with as a pair.
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
I go to the Chicago every once in a while to see the CSO principal tuba audition. I go there with friends to "oom" and "pah". Every time when they go there to the preliminary round, they usually have to play as fast as they possibly can to get into the semifinals. They put nitro in their tubas sometimes instead of the fuel that's intended to be in the tubas, so that the tubas will play faster. And they do, for 5 or 10 measures... then they blow all to Hell.
My Father's Day outing with my son was a trip to the Central Market in Austin taking in the Monster Big Band and hearing my cousin sing and her husband play trumpet. Great band! Great TexMex! Great time! The only downside was the temperature, 100 in the shade. You have been updated.
I am fortunate to have a great job that feeds my family well, but music feeds my soul.
Had a flat tire at a Tampa, Florida motel. My spider wrench was too short to budge the lugnuts and my four pound hammer was no help. The hotel maintenence guy kindly lent me a pole saw with a long aluminum handle.
Using the polesaw handle to extend my lugwrench, I was able to break all the lugnuts loose.
Unfortunately, I bent the last twelve inches of the polesaw handle up about 30 degrees and straightening it left a crimp in it. I returned it to the maintenence guy with profuse apologies.
I hated being a bad hotel guest but my tire got changed.
tubashaman2, how nice of you to reply.
My spare tire got me a few miles to a wonderful tire store where they changed a bad valve stem, changed and aired up both tires for $10.
one can hope.
