A guitar is a guitar!

[Cheez]

Seems like I'm seeing more threads on here on TALKBASS where the poster uses the term "guitar" while actually referring to a bass. This bothers me. I can deal with calling it a "bass guitar", but a guitar is a guitar...not a BASS.

So, is a guitar a bass?

 

[two fingers]

Usually those people posting the threads are new. The last couple of examples I have seen that was the case.

Give 'em a break.

 

[Gorn]

It’s imprecise but it’s not wrong.

 

[Gorn]

It’s like saying you have a cat and his name is Rupert Von Flufferpants but your cat is a cheetah. You’re not wrong but you’re imprecise.

 

[SJan3]

Seems like I'm seeing more threads on here on TALKBASS where the poster uses the term "guitar" while actually referring to a bass. This bothers me. I can deal with calling it a "bass guitar", but a guitar is a guitar...not a BASS.

So, is a guitar a bass?

Terms commonly used are:
Electric bass
Bass guitar
Fender bass
Acoustic bass guitar
Acoustic/electric bass guitar
So, a form of guitar can be a bass guitar or a bass guitar can be a form of guitar.

 

[Jakeman]

Just make sure to refer to your band mate as a treble guitar player. Drives mine nuts.

 

[tedious1]

Just make sure to refer to your band mate as a treble guitar player. Drives mine nuts.

We have a thread winner!

 

[JvJazz83]

Well. I think a gitar can be lots of things. You have Barritone guitars, tenor guitars. "regular" guitars and of course BASS guitars! It's just like with revolvers. They are a type of pistol, but hardly anyone refers to them as revolving pistols. Go figure.
The term bass is also not very precise if you want to get serious about it. You have the double (upright) bass, and of course there is also the bass as a deep male voice (singing). I would even be tempted to say that the term bass doesn't refer to an instrument at all, but the position in the musical notation system. The deepest/lowest sounding position that is.

 

[Bassbeater]

Talk to your council member.
Pass a law!
"Basses are basses, guitars are guitars."
Adjourned!

 

[MattZilla]

It's just like with revolvers. They are a type of pistol, but hardly anyone refers to them as revolving pistols.

I have a long range guitar, it's called a Precision for that reason I think...

 

[dabbler]

Well. I think a gitar can be lots of things. You have Barritone guitars, tenor guitars. "regular" guitars and of course BASS guitars! It's just like with revolvers. They are a type of pistol, but hardly anyone refers to them as revolving pistols. Go figure.
The term bass is also not very precise if you want to get serious about it. You have the double (upright) bass, and of course there is also the bass as a deep male voice (singing). I would even be tempted to say that the term bass doesn't refer to an instrument at all, but the position in the musical notation system. The deepest/lowest sounding position that is.

^ This. When someone is playing a tenor sax, do you say that he is playing a TENOR? In the same way, the big boy that our basses were designed to replace in popular music, the bass violin (actually, I think the correct term is contra-bass violin), is still in reality, a VIOLIN.

Now that said, let's not get our panties in a bunch over terminology. If you know what they are talking about, what does it matter?

 

[Stilltryin]

Is minivan a car?

 

[BassholeKI]

I think its a bass guitar.

Is minivan a car?

Since car comes from the term autocar, then yes.

Particularly since the original minivan in the US was built on the Chrysler K car chassis, then yes it is.

 

[CatchaCuda]

Damn I want a 2.5 turbo chrysler van from the 80's now...

It's always been "bass" for me. In most cases I can get the jist when a new member says guitar on a bass forum.

 

[Epitaph04]

I'm just going to go back to playing bass guitar now.

 

[MYLOWFREQ]

 

[Stilltryin]

I once referred to my bass as a guitar in front of my friend, and he wouldn't stop saying "but that's a bass." Yeah, it's a bass-guitar. It's not a bass trombone. It's not a bass drum. It's a bass guitar. It's still an electric guitar.

I think its a bass guitar.



Since car comes from the term autocar, then yes.

Particularly since the original minivan in the US was built on the Chrysler K car chassis, then yes it is.

 

[west al]

 

[TolerancEJ]

Ladies and Gentlemen, at this stage of this thread, the only correct answer is carrots.

 

[SJan3]

Is minivan a car?

Nope it's a van.