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Re: Mini basses.
« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2010, 10:27:16 AM »
I'll have to post a picture of my Savoy bass.  It's a close cousin.  I think the headstock ends when the fret nut was on my Newport.
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Re: Mini basses.
« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2010, 05:27:30 PM »
Replace the neck on that little mando and voila. Mini t-bird!
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Re: Mini basses.
« Reply #17 on: October 07, 2010, 05:43:27 AM »
20" is way too short for bass tuning, really. I had a bass that had 24" or something and no matter how you intonated it and what strings you used, in a bass octave tuning you had all these weird ghost notes and freak harmonics on the E and A string. Unbearable if you played it unplugged .
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Re: Mini basses.
« Reply #18 on: October 14, 2010, 01:12:33 PM »
20" is way too short

It's not the length that matters. Didn't your daddy tell you that?
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