I've decided that the violin is not for me.

[johntimaeus@infosec.exchange]

@rsanders @plutarch @ai6yr @hutterer @bammerlaan

I haven't run across an electric bass that sounds good with a bow.
The acoustic-electric travel basses that feel right and don't take two days to settle after set up start at $30k. And still sound like a stick with strings.

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@johntimaeus @rsanders @plutarch @hutterer @bammerlaan Wondering about the heavy metal electric bass and what effects pedals are involved, I guess I should go look on YouTube. 🤪

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@johntimaeus @rsanders @plutarch @hutterer @bammerlaan In a strange convergence of my follows...

Here's some young person with a cello on a bicycle!!

Phil (ascentale) (@ascentale@sfba.social)

@bikenite@fedigroups.social A8-2. I also saw this on the way home this week. A parent, riding with kid on the back of an Xtracycle long-tail, with an electric conversion. The kid is carrying a cello(?) as a backpack. https://youtube.com/shorts/BIkPQl39V8w?feature=share #BikeNite

SFBA.social (sfba.social)

[johntimaeus@infosec.exchange]

@ai6yr @rsanders @plutarch @hutterer @bammerlaan

If you want to use a bow (which I do) the bridge needs a curve on it...most electric sticks don't have half the room needed.

Even a crappy student-grade upright, well set up, has good resonance. An electric basically makes a sine wave. You can add flavor with pedals, but it's always a little dry.

Same difference as a 1910-1980 stienway grand and the best nord keyboard you can buy.
It sounds the same over crappy Bluetooth eatbuds.
But if you get any closer to the music, you can tell the difference.

[rsanders@sfba.social]

@johntimaeus @ai6yr @plutarch @hutterer @bammerlaan ah, sorry, just mentioned it as one of the bassists I know uses one for practice when not using a bass guitar.

[bammerlaan@mastodon.nl]

@ai6yr @hutterer @plutarch You obviously don't know any harpists then

[bammerlaan@mastodon.nl]

@ai6yr @johntimaeus @rsanders @plutarch @hutterer Not an extremely rare sight here in the Netherlands

That bicycle infrastructure looks like a death trap though.

[glasspusher@beige.party]

@johntimaeus @ai6yr @rsanders @plutarch @hutterer @bammerlaan

Played cello as a kid. 100% Team Bow

[cliffsesport@mastodon.social]

@johntimaeus @ai6yr @hutterer @bammerlaan @plutarch despite how most vehicles have grown in size, compare old Camry/Accord to modern Corolla/Civic actual cargo capacity is not so great. My '71 Impala sedan had an enormous trunk, almost enough space under the hood for aux engine, and big cabin. Though no crumple zones, which is why I got so many messages left under wiper saying call if wanted to sell. Demolition drivers wanted it.

[johnjburnsiii@kzoo.to]

@ai6yr

I threw a cheap guitar in a hiking backpack and road 4 miles to my college class - and then back home after, twice a week - for a summer semester.

I don't remember it raining any of those days. Lucky...

Got the credits.

Gotta do, what you gotta do...

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@rsanders @johntimaeus @plutarch @hutterer @bammerlaan Not sure how this guy's technique is but, as suspected, there's at least a few electric cello covers on YouTube

- YouTube

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(www.youtube.com)

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@CliffsEsport @johntimaeus @hutterer @bammerlaan @plutarch Demolition drivers don't want crumple zones?!?! LOL.

[cliffsesport@mastodon.social]

@ai6yr @johntimaeus @hutterer @bammerlaan @plutarch Only in their opponent vehicles

[msbellows@c.im]

@johntimaeus @rsanders @plutarch @ai6yr @hutterer @bammerlaan Can you rent or borrow basses when you travel? It's not like pianists have to worry about renting a big enough car.

[rsanders@sfba.social]

@ai6yr @johntimaeus @plutarch @hutterer @bammerlaan From my perspective he's at a skilled technician level in the videos. I'd prefer if he had better dynamics.

His use of chorus and delay, along with loopback is enjoyable.

With around 250 to 300 hrs of more work I could join him on my electric bass.

[scm@sfba.social]

@ai6yr @johntimaeus @rsanders @plutarch @hutterer @bammerlaan @ascentale A bit strange for me too, that’s my old neighborhood in Oakland I used to live a couple blocks away and bike though that intersection all the time

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@msbellows @johntimaeus @rsanders @plutarch @hutterer @bammerlaan Having once restored a Hammond Organ, that is most certainly a consideration for those. I think most bands have switched over to simulations of those because they are such a PITA to move.

[bammerlaan@mastodon.nl]

@msbellows @johntimaeus @rsanders @plutarch @ai6yr @hutterer In the professional scene usually not, no. Every bassist I know travels around with their bass. Sometimes on a tour, the organisation helps moving the thing between venues, but given that they often have other gigs in between as well, usually they just have to lug the thing around all the time.

Of course, it's different for those lucky few bassists that have a fixed position in an orchestra.

[kinsale42@mstdn.games]

@ai6yr @hutterer @bammerlaan @plutarch had a friend in college who somehow managed to fit his in a Toyota Celica

[bluetea@ioc.exchange]

@bammerlaan @plutarch imho the whole body is involved in cello - bowing is a big movement, plus you're reaching over the fingerboard for 4th position - I would strongly recommend hiring before buying if you have pain issues. Even just moving the case to get it out for practice could be a concern. A cello in a case is heavy.