Recent content by John B

I know this is a super-old thread, but the luthier had to be Danny Ferrington. He made the bass for Don Was, and it is shown in the Ferrington book. Very cool.

Unbelievable! What a fantastic looking bass. I bet it sounds as good as it looks!

Not to quibble, but wasn't that Ma Rainey?

Kansas City, so KC Strings is on my list of places to visit. I visited Mass Street Music in Lawrence this past weekend and had the opportunity to test drive an Eastman, but that's as far as I've gotten. I'll check out the sticky - I don't know why I didn't do that before posting!

So, from a newbie, what are some low-cost basses that would be appropriate for jazz?

What about the Engelhardt (former Kay) line of plywood basses? They go from $1,049 to $1,559 from Gollihur.

Good point. Archtop guitars do have frets, but maybe they don't move their bridges around much.

I am quite willing to go out and find a cat, if someone could tell me what color works best for strings. Calico? Tortoise shell?

Noted. I really do know the terms, having played violin for a number of years, and having grown up with a professor of music as my father. Please excuse me for playing guitar for the last several years. I promise I will set that demon instrument down, and install vocabcheck on my browser so I...

So I'm wondering how awful this would be. I am an extremely new to string bass, but I have played guitar for a number of years. Way back when I was a little lad, I played violin. When I started, my instructor put little bits of tape showing the proper location of the notes. A lot of...

Hi, I've done a little searching on this forum for "church basses," and found a couple of references to Prescott basses. But, I still have some questions, for any of you that might know. What is a relatively standard scale length? I've seen one reference on the internet to 670 mm...