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11-07-2008, 08:30 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: 3rd stone from the sun | | | Is bass your favorite instrument?
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Is bass your favorite instrument? On the surface, I know this may seem like an odd question on a bass site, but it isn't my favorite.
My favorite are tenor/alto sax and piano/keys, neither of which I can play. After that I'd go with guitar, which I have played longer than bass. That said, bass (which I obviously love to play) is my main instrument. This happened more out of readily available gigging opportunities than anything.
Am I alone here? 
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11-07-2008, 08:36 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Close to Los Angeles, CA | | | I think that overall, guitar is my favorite instrument, even though i am more into bass at the moment. |
11-07-2008, 08:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Virginia Beach, VA | | | It goes back and forth between acoustic guitar and bass, but bass is my favorite about 90% of the time. |
11-07-2008, 09:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Finland | | | It depends - If I play by myself, I prefer guitar, but in a band setting, I'm all for bass. Drums come on very close 2nd place though.
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11-07-2008, 09:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | | It depends on the project, who I'm playing with, what's being played or how long I've been stuck on one instrument.
When I've been playing bass for a while, I'd like to be playing guitar, if I've been playing guitar for a while I'd like to be playing bass.
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11-07-2008, 10:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Wichita, KS | | | I really love sound in general, I don't care if it's a bass, percussion, a digerderoo, clarinet, shaker box, trumpet, lute, church organ. To limit your musical interest/love to 4 (or more) strings on a slab of wood seems weird to me.
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11-07-2008, 10:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: wolcott ct. | | | Bass for work,
Theremin for enjoyment.
Andy
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11-07-2008, 10:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | | Bass is and always was my favorite. However, a funky keys player with a B3 makes me smile every time. |
11-07-2008, 11:09 AM
|  | Evil Alien | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sacramento, CA | | | I think the Mellotron is my favorite
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11-07-2008, 11:14 AM
|  | Deteriorating faster than I can lower my standards | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Frederick MD USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by baba Is bass your favorite instrument? | Yes.
Bass, then guitar. Then it's a tossup between pedal steel and harp (not harmonica).
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11-07-2008, 01:44 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | Yup, Bass is my favorite. |
11-07-2008, 01:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Brandon, Manitoba, Canada | | | I play bass in a rock band. In a blues band I play sax, harp, and keys (or play bass if the bassist isn't available that night). While I was trained on sax and am probably best on horn, bass is by far my favorite instrument to play. The bass zone I get into is what I imagine heroin would be like.
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11-07-2008, 02:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada | | | I couldn't chose a favorite instrument. I'm more interested in hearing how one instrument plays off of another as opposed to just what one instrument is doing. I probably have around as many guitarists and drummers as I do bassists among my favorite musicians (and throw in some keys, sax and trumpet players). |
11-07-2008, 11:52 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: WA State | | | Definitely Bass, but I sure wouldn't mind trying out a Sitar.
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11-07-2008, 11:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Delhi, India | | | bass totally! i play a little bit of guitar and a very little bit of keys but i sure cant save my life playing either of them
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11-08-2008, 12:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: I been everywhere, man... | | | The female voice is my favorite instrument, really. Since I can't sing well and have no interest in getting sex reassignment surgery, I can't perform with it. As a result, the bass thing is second place for me.
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11-08-2008, 08:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lunarpollen I think the Mellotron is my favorite | My brother in law just got one- he's in the midst of rehabbing it right now- it's been sitting in a warehouse for the past 20 years.
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11-08-2008, 01:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Kingston, NY/Middletown, CT | | | I love the bass, but there aren't many opportunities for me to play it...so i'm going to say banjo which i play all the time. |
11-08-2008, 11:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Singapore | | | Piano when i'm alone, bass when in a band. Acoustic guitar comes a close second.
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11-09-2008, 12:21 AM
|  | Ampeeeeeeg \o/ | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Israel | | | I love baritone sax and bag pipes. Wish I could get one sometime. ._.
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