EB-6 video from CME

Started by Dave W, May 11, 2023, 09:45:14 PM

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Dave W


Basvarken

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Pretty cool!


EDIT:
even if that guy has no clue Woody's been dead for 23 years...
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morrow

With six string basses all over the place it might make a nice Epi project.

uwe

He plays it like a baritone guitar - more Tony than Geezer - which I guess you should. It's not that the E, A, D & G strings (if you use bass and not baritone tuning) can't provide a bass sound on it (though nothing even close to the might of a mudbucker), but the narrow spacing makes it feel entirely guitarish and the C and F strings (or B and E if you use guitar interval tuning, I can never make up my mind whaat makes more sense on these) do sound quite differently and very un-bass'ish. It really is an instrument for which you have to rethink your style and approach.

Bruce Springsteen started out with one of those and not realizing that it was a bass tuned it EADGBE at the guitar octave (not the bass octave!). He forever wondered why he had such a hard time pulling strings  and could only chord with a lot of strength on his 30" scale 'guitar'. Until one day someone told him!  :mrgreen: (Perhaps the bass tuners should have made him think.) I would wager the guess that playing that thing like a guitar did influence his forceful rhythm guitar approach.
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Basvarken

Quote from: uwe on May 12, 2023, 06:29:43 AM
Bruce Springsteen started out with one of those and not realizing that it was a bass tuned it EADGBE at the guitar octave (not the bass octave!). He forever wondered why he had such a hard time pulling strings  and could only chord with a lot of strength on his 30" scale 'guitar'. Until one day someone told him!  :mrgreen: (Perhaps the bass tuners should have made him think.) I would wager the guess that playing that thing like a guitar did influence his forceful rhythm guitar approach.

I remember that from his autobiography.
I assumed it was the semi-acoustic version with smaller guitar sized tuners.



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uwe

I couldn't find a picture, I remember reading SG somewhere. In any case, playing it strung one octave higher would have been equally hard, they both have a 30" sale.
We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

Basvarken

I know. But I meant to say it is easier to be mistaken for a guitar than the one with six of those huge elephant ear tuners.
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uwe

I think we can all forgive Bruce his misunderstanding, the story is cute. Too bad he doesn't dig out a 30"er tuned an octave too high today anymore for. say, one song live. I wonder how it sounded with that extreme string tension.

And if it had proven a successful idea it might have saved us all from the tapping craze!  :mrgreen:
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From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

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Eb6  ;D



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