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I love my acoustic bass guitar, but it's not loud. It's fine indoors with other quiet instruments, but I think the low notes might not carry over low-frequency outdoor background noises such as traffic rumble, even for people sitting close to you. Last weekend, I played with a fiddle and...

Would a battery-powered amp be helpful in the situations you are thinking of? There are several available that should give your instrument a noticeable boost without the need to run electrical cords through wet grass.

Here is Paul McCartney giving a bass-playing lesson on YouTube in which he wraps his thumb around the fretboard. It appears he is muting the E string with it, what do you all think?

Get a Burley cargo trailer. Burley has two cargo trailer models, either can support up to 100 lbs. The picture below shows the Flatbed. I use the Nomad to carry a week's groceries, it works great. Or convert a used kiddie trailer to save $$. Invalid Link Removed

I've got one and I like it for my purposes. I got it to give my acoustic bass guitar a boost (and to have fun playing with the modeling). It provides more than enough of a volume increase so that I can play with a piano or other acoustic instruments. I haven't needed to turn mine up more...

Getting old is not so bad -- it's certainly better than the alternative!

I just switched my Ovation Applause AE140 from the stock D'Addario phosphor-bronze-over-steel thingies to TI Acousticores (p-b wound over nylon). It is such an improvement! Unplugged, I have a more musical tone (especially on the low E) now, and none of that brassy jangle. I did have to...

Recently, I met a bright kid about 10 or 12 years old. It was at a party and I had my ukulele along. The kid asked to see my uke and I showed him how to hold it and strum a chord or two. It turned out he is a whiz at Guitar Hero but he had never held a real guitar before (or uke or bass or...

I was curious about the same thing, or whether the bass version (same price) sounds good with a guitar. Just looking at them and reading the specs, I wouldn't be surprised if they are the very same amp with a slightly different selection of effects.

Four 4" speakers have the same surface area as one 8" speaker, just over 50 square inches. (Area is proportional to radius squared.) On the other hand, 5 watts doesn't sound like much power. I am considering at this mini Roland bass amp as a booster to an ABG. Has any one tried one with an...

If you're still looking, consider an Applause ukulele (with or without a pickup). Don't waste your time with something that costs $20.

Ukuleles!