Recent content by Major-Minor

My EP story: After having Spiro Weichs on my "jazz" bass for more years than I'm willing to admit, I finally got round to getting some Evah Weichs a month ago. Put the G on - sounded great, getting really excited... Then put the D on ..... disaster !! The machine head started clicking when I had...

Thanks everyone - I know understand "fully-carved". As I'm lucky enough to own two "fully-carved" basses and am surrounded daily by other fully-carved basses in the pro symphony orch I play in, it never occurs to me that basses can be made of plywood or be laminated. Its a very long time since...

I'm intrigued by the term "fully-carved double bass". In all my 40 years of professional DB playing I had never heard this phrase until a few weeks ago while reading posts on a UK based bass chat forum similar to this one. Fully-carved ... ? As opposed to ? .... what ? semi-carved ? a quarter...

Hi there knumbskull (great name!). I'm hopeful for the future at the BBC. But you never know... We had a 9 week musicians union strike in 1980 as the Beeb cut down from 10 orchestras to the current 5. They got rid of all the light music bands - great shame. But they are currently building a new...

Hello everybody. I'm a pro bass player in the UK - been a staff musician for the BBC for 38 years, mainly on classical double bass. But I have always played bass guitar - in all styles, but mostly jazz oriented these days. Looking forward to some lively debate with you all !