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10-29-2007, 12:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Chicago, IL | | | Are basses women?
Hi,
I have noticed on this forum that when a lot of upright players talk about there instruments, they refer to there basses as a "she". Why is that? It's just wood right? Just becuase a bass has f-holes, that doesn't give it a gender, does it? Is it just guys that do this? If a bass belongs to a female, does that make said bass a male. Anyways, I am just curious about the "basses having a gender phenomenom" and I am not trying to be disrespectful to anyone. Please excuse my ramblings. I have too much free time today.
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10-29-2007, 12:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | No. |
10-29-2007, 12:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Denver, CO | | | Anything that I fondle that lovingly is definitely female. |
10-29-2007, 01:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Seattle, WA | | | With those shapely hips? You betcha.
Mine's name is Ilsa. |
10-29-2007, 01:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Somewhere Over the Barline | | | Most women have only one f-hole. |
10-29-2007, 01:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chicago | | | I never got the 'naming inanimate objects' thing. I have never named a car, a bike (I was a pretty hard core distance cyclist), a golf club, or my bass. |
10-29-2007, 02:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada | | | Mine is named "Vicky." She's tall, shapely, delicate and a presence in the home. My wife accepts her because she knows who was around first!
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10-29-2007, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by fingers  I never got the 'naming inanimate objects' thing. I have never named a car, a bike (I was a pretty hard core distance cyclist), a golf club, or my bass. | Oh yeah? Well Ilsa told me to tell you to go...
(She's got quite a mouth on her) |
10-29-2007, 03:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: New York City | | | my girlfriend is fairly tolerating about my Miriam |
10-29-2007, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by TroyK Oh yeah? Well Ilsa told me to tell you to go...
(She's got quite a mouth on her) | I definitely won't cross her. Most girls can kick my ass. |
10-29-2007, 03:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Marvelous, Texas | | | Celeste and I have been around the world together. Been through countless girlfriends, and a failed marriage. She's not going anywhere though. |
10-29-2007, 05:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: LaBelle, FL | | | Actually, they can be either sex. I have an old laminate whose name is Fat Albert, named after the Bill Cosby character. My carved bass is too pretty to be a boy, so her name is Fat Alice. I think that those two have been mating in my closet, cause I found a violin in there this morning.
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10-29-2007, 09:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Houston, TX | | | I named mine Tulula. My girlfriend gets a little jealous every now and then... |
10-29-2007, 09:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: New York City | | | i showed my girlfriend this thread. she was like "THERE ARE MORE OF YOU?!"
gotta dig a girl named stella...
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10-30-2007, 08:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Chicago | | mine's transgendered...it depends on its mood! 
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10-30-2007, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by christ andronis mine's transgendered...it depends on its mood! | No one's judging. |
10-30-2007, 10:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Nashville, TN | | At the risk of embarrassing myself I will be somewhat less than explicit but...
I've always felt that there are physical aspects of playing bass, various motion, friction, etc., that have parallels in making love to a woman. I've been able to better visualize and internalize aspects of bow pressure, vibrato, and other things by relating them to certain sexual activities.
But...you'll just have to imagine what I'm getting at. I can say no more....
Oh yeah...and of course slapping on gut strings is also a lot like making love to woman ..  |
10-30-2007, 10:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: New York City | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby King At the risk of embarrassing myself I will be somewhat less than explicit but...
I've always felt that there are physical aspects of playing bass, various motion, friction, etc., that have parallels in making love to a woman. I've been able to better visualize and internalize aspects of bow pressure, vibrato, and other things by relating them to certain sexual activities.
But...you'll just have to imagine what I'm getting at. I can say no more....
Oh yeah...and of course slapping on gut strings is also a lot like making love to woman .. | AH I'm only a college freshman! MY VIRGIN EYES!  |
10-31-2007, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevin Hsieh AH I'm only a college freshman! MY VIRGIN EYES! | College?! Get rid of that girlfriend and your eyes won't remain virgin much longer.
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Originally Posted by HollowBassman Doesn't she know that they're not really people until the age of about three? | |
11-01-2007, 02:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Henderson, Nevada | | | I've never named a bass, nor even referred to mine with a gender (though I have called it my homie at times). If I received a bass with a name and gender, I would respectfully continue to call it by that name though. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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