The penny finally dropped ....thanks Pabs:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by pablopepper
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The penny finally dropped ....thanks Pabs:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by pablopepper
Shergold did an 8 string bass back in the 70s and I'd be guessing they weren't the first to give it a try
Don't see any finger pluckers jumping in to say they want to own one. Definitely best suited to pick players.
Except me. I have one and have played it fingers and pick. It will be on the intro to "Square One Blues" from our next release.
Is fun to play, but like fretting an extremely large gauge string.
Yeah, the fretting would be a bit harder and cannot begin to imagine how bad it would be on the 12 stringer with triples rather than pairs for each note.
Had a thought ,looking at this again its pretty similar to the SGB-34 not sure about headstock length and obviously control routing would be different. Doubt whether they could duplicate the bridge. however I found that Guild now make a similar 4 string Bass bridge that probably wouldn't be too hard to convert given that it has rosewood saddles...Quote:
Originally Posted by dingobass
Greg Lake from Emerson, Lake & Palmer used to play a beautiful Alembic 8 string bass ... who can forget "fanfare for the common man" ... https://youtu.be/fK92hdp6u18 ...
well, maybe you need to be old like me ... I think the first time I saw this was when that I realised that Bass was the instrument for me!
I found this pic ... mmmm ... Alembic ...
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Alembic have made some very interesting looking basses ... maybe some inspiration for other kits here ...
http://alembic.com/info/fcvault.html
My former employer Zenith Music had (and probably still have) two 12string Hamers. They are VERY heavy! Like about 8kgs heavy.Quote:
Originally Posted by pablopepper
Wow, that is heavy. Twice the weight of my Ric 4003 and I thought that weighed plenty at 4.1kg
No way, 8kg is nuts. You gotta think about a kilo of that is just strings.