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09-28-2007, 08:55 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Columbia, Md | | | The n00best of questions
I don't want to sound like an idiot, so maybe you can help me out.
A 3/4 upright. Is it spoken as three quarters or three fourths?
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09-28-2007, 08:57 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | I say 'three-quarter'(not three quar ters). I'm probably wrong, being primarily a slabbist. 
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09-28-2007, 09:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rockville, MD | | | ...arent those the same thing?
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09-28-2007, 09:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Columbia, Md | | Quote:
Originally Posted by rockwarnick ...arent those the same thing? | Mathematically, yes. But I'm sure that one is used more commonly when speaking of uprights. |
09-28-2007, 09:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: New Fairfield, CT | | | ditto.
"three quarter" here. but i think most people would know exactly what you mean if you said "three fourths". i wouldn't hold it against you. |
09-29-2007, 07:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rockville, MD | | | o, well i say three fourths. i never really thought about it.
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09-29-2007, 07:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Madison, WI/Indianapolis, IN | | | Generally Its a 3/ fourths bass or a 3/ quarters-size bass as I've observed it. |
09-29-2007, 09:21 AM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | | "Three-quarter" is the usual vernacular. |
09-29-2007, 08:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Columbia, Md | | Thanks. Just one of those stupid little things. And I usually get 50/50 guesses wrong.  |
09-29-2007, 10:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Premier, WV | | | I own a couple of .75 basses.......HA! (JOKE). I always say three quarter.
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09-29-2007, 10:34 PM
|  | Bare Bones Bass Builder | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Denver, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Cathead I own a couple of .75 basses.......HA! (JOKE). I always say three quarter. |
Good one! Three quarters here, too. Unless I'm in Europe. Then I go by the metric system.
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