neighbourofthedrude
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Re: Your favourite musical instrument?
Mar 15, 2010, 15:07
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I like your Bisto tub the best !
;o)
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IanB
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Edited Mar 15, 2010, 16:50
Re: Your favourite musical instrument?
Mar 15, 2010, 15:56
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There are few instruments with less cred than the fretless bass (the Howard Jones style keytar is probably the only one with less credibility) but I love the sound I get from my fretless Fender Jazz. I have tried others, inc a rather snazzy looking black Rick 4001 fretless, but the Fender is the one I always come back to. Has the rich lo-end boom I love and is versatile enough to transmit melodic detail that cuts through. If you want some 60s / 70s punch with a touch of that double bass "vocal" quality then there's none better that I have played. Especially if you use an amp designed for an upright. Warm n woody. Also comes equipped with "idiot lines" which after 28 years of playing fretless as my main instrument I still can't quite manage without!
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ToneStone
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Re: Your favourite musical instrument?
Mar 15, 2010, 16:25
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My Vox Custom 24
http://www.guitariste.com/forums/photos/76350-1-big.jpg
One solid piece of wood from the body to the headstock and sounds like no other guitar i own. has an excellent SG style sound but with a flick of the switches can sound like the thinnest Telecaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custom_24
Synth wise its my Transcendent 2000 :
http://www.cykong.com/Synths/Transcendent2000/Transcendent2000.htm
as used by Bernard Sumner and Hannett
And then all shoved thru my fave FX
The Electric Mistress and the Big Muff :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Mistress
and my RAT distortion :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Co_RAT EVIL!!!!
and finally into :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_echo
Id be lost without them
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hedlite
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Re: Your favourite musical instrument?
Mar 15, 2010, 21:16
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Yeah, that's what I thought. Bought it by accident...drunk on ebay. I still love it, very pick-up-able and sounds nice unplugged too strangely enough. The manufacturer, Ravenswood, seem to have disappeared from the planet though. Was it a hoax?
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micmacmoc
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Re: Your favourite musical instrument?
Mar 15, 2010, 21:35
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What a lovely thread...and how i would love to grace it with worth! I have a Stratocaster painted by Alan Arthurs (he does the stage stuff for Hawkwind and is a wonderfully non pressure/sales artist in my shop.)
I don't want to sell it but I really cannot play! its wasted on me
(ask Tony kiernan)
My fave instrument is a crappy green acoustic that I bought from horse racing betting winnings a very long time aga. I love its memories more than the sliced fingers, bruised chest I get from trying to play it. Gah, I wish I had you're're talent folkses!
i will be playing the green one as I brew tonight, I just don't care, the only song I can do all the way through is 'sunspots'
pip pip
moc
xxxxx
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