Recent content by rfclef

He stocks em with Curt Mangan Nickel Wounds. I had em on my 4 string, and love em.

My Birdsong 5er arrived in October. Could not love it more. It IS my first 5 string. But I can hear no deficiency in its performance.

Sigh... got no time for such drama...

I'd be interested to hear what the solid body and traditional bridge sounds like...

Well, hmmmm...

New model? Solid body?

Worship rehearsal tonight... struck again by a thought I have often when playing my new 5 stringer: This bass deserves to be with someone who plays better than me. It just sounds so good! Feels so nice! I feel like I am starting to adjust to the 5 string, though I still play enough clams for a...

Ooh...

Mmmmmm... saaaalted maaaaple....

Bronc-itis.

I just got an Ibanez TMB35, short scale 5 string. One of the things I'd like to do (eventually), is make it string-through... does anyone know if there is a bridge that is a direct replacement (ain't gotta drill new mounting holes)? Yes, I know making it string through will require drilling...

No. I bought the 3 oval horns and the silver Eb in one lot offa Craigslist. They are old St. Petersburg (brand) horns, and I am one-by-one sending them through the shop. The silver Eb plays decent... the brass one I bought in Kiev in Jan of.1990 on a jazz trip with my college jazz band (I played...

When I got into bass, I sold my big horn... so these are technically short scales... the top image is an Eb tuba I bought in Kiev, then an oval Bb baritone, Bb euphonium, and Eb alto horn (or tenor horn, depending on what part of the world you are from)... bottom image, a Russian Eb tuba, which...

Don't make me start listing tubas and other horns...

But eating them is fine.