Ya, the whole house was the bass. i was playing this pole with a single DB string fixed into a slot in a hardwood floor. I made the notes by pulling pack on the pole, thereby varying tension of the string (ala washtub style).
My intonation was perfect.
The sound was glorious!
Yet I know in reality this couldnt possibly work. Or could it?
I read that the late Fritz Richmond, the jug and washtub bass player with the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, played a quonset hut during his stint in the army; "It had a deep, very deep, sound".
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Originally Posted by skychief
I dreamt i was playing a house bass.
Ya, the whole house was the bass. i was playing this pole with a single DB string fixed into a slot in a hardwood floor. I made the notes by pulling pack on the pole, thereby varying tension of the string (ala washtub style).
My intonation was perfect.
The sound was glorious!
Yet I know in reality this couldnt possibly work. Or could it?
Pardon the crude sketch.
Wow, what a great dream! I think your average domestic floor would be way too stiff to get much sound out of but a steel Quonset hut roof would be interesting!
I've had dreams like this. Sometimes I'm playing another instruments like a violin or a trumpet, but somehow it's really a bass. The most disturbing dreams were the ones where my bass was literally falling apart as I was playing it, like a piece of rotted wood. Thankfully, those dreams stopped once I sold my Kay
I think your average domestic floor would be way too stiff to get much sound out of but a steel Quonset hut roof would be interesting!
