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04-09-2007, 03:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah | | | I've decided to start calling it the irregular bass since so many people (including "musicians") ask me if I also play the regular bass (bass guitar).
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04-09-2007, 03:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Istar  why not just call it a contrabass like the rest of the (non englisch speaking) world ? removes all of the confusion.  | In America we'd be called "evil doers" or snobs if we used such a fancy shmancy term.  |
04-09-2007, 04:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | I usually call it a double bass, but unfortunately that's the term that seems the most confusing to laypeople. As Reuben said, at least in this country that's the case. |
04-09-2007, 04:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah | | | Watcha call dat dere ding? Huh, a double bubble, do you use in de bath? |
04-09-2007, 04:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chicago | | | When I was in the union I called it double bass because most of the heavy players were listed that way in the member directory. |
04-09-2007, 04:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Ebay sure as hell doesn't know. Type "double bass", and you get one BSO and umpteen Neil Peart Signature kick drum pedals.
Oh... and one LaBella Goldentone D string, at the moment. |
04-09-2007, 04:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah | | | When a double bass show up on American Idol, then maybe things will change.
Yeah, right. |
04-09-2007, 05:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Madison, WI/Indianapolis, IN | | | They should have a Double Bass American Idol that would clear up the confusion and be amusing. |
04-09-2007, 05:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson Ebay sure as hell doesn't know. Type "double bass", and you get one BSO and umpteen Neil Peart Signature kick drum pedals.
Oh... and one LaBella Goldentone D string, at the moment. | That and a few $15k-60k Italian basses from Ken Smith. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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