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12-28-2008, 05:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tyneside, UK | | | Cello tuning on a bass?
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Anyone else use this? I've been using it a while and it's so easy to play.
BUT...
Will I do any damage with my bass tuned CGDA?
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12-28-2008, 05:49 PM
| | Power Bassist | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Stockholm, Sweden | | No, you will not harm your bass in any way by tuning it in a different tuning... 
Keep playing and enjoy.
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12-28-2008, 05:52 PM
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12-28-2008, 05:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: St. John's, NL, Canada | | | I play my fretless in 5ths. It won't harm the instrument, although it's best to use a lighter string for the A.
I'm having an instrument built with 4 d-tuners, so I can quickly switch between standard and 5ths.
I'm also doing a concert in April of all 6 Bach cello suites on electric bass. I'll post the recording after the concert.
I'm classically trained, BTW...and I tune my upright in 5ths as well. |
12-28-2008, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by The Universe I play my fretless in 5ths. It won't harm the instrument, although it's best to use a lighter string for the A.
I'm having an instrument built with 4 d-tuners, so I can quickly switch between standard and 5ths.
I'm also doing a concert in April of all 6 Bach cello suites on electric bass. I'll post the recording after the concert.
I'm classically trained, BTW...and I tune my upright in 5ths as well. | Seeing something like that would be amazing. PLease post video/audio!
Isn't there a 'cellobass'?
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Mediocre Bassist Club #706 P&W Club #71 LGBT #26 Keyboardist #40 Quote:
Originally Posted by LowDown Hal Bass Players - Do It Deep | |
12-28-2008, 06:40 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Just make sure to get the right guages of string.
I used to do this to play Irish reels, jigs and polkas I knew on banjo/mandolin.
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12-28-2008, 06:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida | | | Kudos to you cats that do it, because those scale shapes are Greek to me.
I understand the logic for a smaller instrument like a violin, but I'm lost otherwise.
Oh, Benjamin Strange does this as well. You people should form one of those clubs or something.
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12-28-2008, 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted by The Universe I play my fretless in 5ths. It won't harm the instrument, although it's best to use a lighter string for the A.
I'm having an instrument built with 4 d-tuners, so I can quickly switch between standard and 5ths.
I'm also doing a concert in April of all 6 Bach cello suites on electric bass. I'll post the recording after the concert.
I'm classically trained, BTW...and I tune my upright in 5ths as well. | I look forward to hearing it! Please be sure to let us know when it's posted.
Thanks!
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12-28-2008, 09:00 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Levy's Leathers Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Toronto/Niagara Falls, Ontario | | | No. It won't hurt your bass.
It will hurt your bass if you post in the wrong forum though. |
12-28-2008, 09:07 PM
| | | | I would suggest using a .125 or .130 gauge string for the C string, a .090 gauge string for the G, a normal gauge (.065?) string for the D, and a .030 or .035 gauge string for the A.
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12-28-2008, 09:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New City, NY | | | Shoot a PM to Benjamin Strange. If memory serves correctly, he exclusively tunes his basses in 5ths.
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12-29-2008, 05:21 AM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Wilson No. It won't hurt your bass.
I will hurt your bass if you post in the wrong forum though. | Fixed. 
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