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07-31-2008, 06:40 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York City | | | the official 8-String (octave courses) bass club
I can't believe one doesn't already exist (and if it does, I apologize for my stupidity, and once again curse the inelegance of the TB Search Engine). Also, I don't know whether this is really the "official" anything...but since I can't find any other evidence of an 8-string (octave courses) bass club, I hereby pronounce myself de facto founder & president for life!
(Edit: Okay, I found there is a precedent, so I concede to WarriorJoe7. See below.)
If you have an 8-string (octave courses) bass, post a pic & join the club! (PM me for your chronologically derived member #)
We're an inclusive club, so 10-string (5x2) or 12-string (6x2) basses are welcome. For that matter, triple course basses -- e.g., 12-string (4x3) -- are welcome also, but I think those guys already have their own club. Any bass with multiple courses -- groups of strings primarily intended to be struck/fretted simultaneously -- are welcome to this club.
What it's not meant to be is a club for 8-string Extended Range Instruments (i.e., F#-B-E-A-D-G-C-F). I think they have their own club already too. Sorry, octave courses only.
Here's mine: 
It's a frankenbass of sorts: Schaller bridge, EMG pickups, EMG BTC electronics, Gotoh machines, Warmoth body, & a custom-made Michael Dolan neck.
Who's next? Let's see those pics!
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07-31-2008, 06:54 AM
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Only a Carlo Robelli, but it does for the moment.
I've also got a Washburn B20 8-string in bits at the moment which is getting a massive overhaul and I'm looking at getting a custom 8-string made sometime next year...
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07-31-2008, 06:58 AM
| | | | I'm in.
Ibenez 1979 Studio 8-String. Pic to come.
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08-04-2008, 07:05 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York City | | | Yikes, talk about being the outcasts...
Two responses?!?!?! I know there are more than three 8-string bassists on TB. Sad...
eh, BigRedX, you're #2. duckbutter, you're #3 ...but you owe us a pic! |
08-04-2008, 07:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Calabash, NC | | | I'll get in on this... Brice 8-string! Boo-yah!
Haven't learned how to post pics yet... I guess that'll get me my official membership? Doesn't help that I'm at work and I can't post/view pics, anyhow. Blasted censorship!
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08-04-2008, 08:12 AM
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08-04-2008, 08:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Toronto | | I have an ESP 8-string with active pickups, sounds fantastic. I'll take pics when I get home but for now, this stock one will have to do:  http://www.musiciansfriend.com/produ...Top?sku=516647 |
08-04-2008, 08:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Toronto | | | It's worth noting that these guys can really shred your fingers if you don't play with a pick (which I don't). They also have a tendency to be top-heavy, which I guess is unavoidable. |
08-04-2008, 08:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Calabash, NC | | | I don't really have the top-heavy problem, but they can do a number on your fingers, especially with complex or fast lines. Still love it, though!
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08-04-2008, 08:40 AM
| | | | A decent, grippy strap will deal with the top heaviness.
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08-04-2008, 09:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Toronto | | | I don't mind the top-heaviness once I start playing it, really...just a nitpick. The sound really helps to fill out the power trio that I play in, without having to really play busier. |
08-04-2008, 10:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Here's mine:  
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08-04-2008, 11:18 AM
| | | | That's a cool 8-string monkeyhaiku, who made it? and what bridge does it have?
Braver man than me to go fretless on one of those!
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08-04-2008, 11:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Toronto | | So are we gonna get numbers for this stuff? I can't have prestige without some sort of arbitrarily-assigned number!  |
08-04-2008, 11:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Calabash, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Toronto Bassist So are we gonna get numbers for this stuff? | Yeah, numbers! I want a number! (It would be my first) 
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08-04-2008, 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted by BigRedX That's a cool 8-string monkeyhaiku, who made it? and what bridge does it have?
Braver man than me to go fretless on one of those! | That bridge is a Schaller.
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08-04-2008, 12:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Land of Lakland | | | I'm in with a Hagstrom from the '60s
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08-04-2008, 12:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Lancashire UK | | 
Dean Rhapsody 8er. 
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08-04-2008, 12:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: BASS Heaven !!!! | | |
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08-04-2008, 12:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Syracuse, NY | | Yeah I have a seperate 8 and 12 string club but you can't find the damn things because of the search engine.
I only found mine because I typed in my own user name in search and put "club" in title only. The search won't even do "eight" or "twelve" as I put them in the title for that reason.
Your thread will suffer the same fate unless it is always bumped.
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