A guitar is a guitar!

[Tim Skaggs]

Tenor guitar



Bass guitar

Bass

 

[Fun Size Nick]

^ This. When someone is playing a tenor sax, do you say that he is playing a TENOR?

Yes, I do, particularly if there is also an alto/soprano/bari sax in the group!

 

[Stilltryin]

and van is a car.

Nope it's a van.

 

[BOOG]

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?

I call them guitars so people outside of the community don’t mistake what I’m talking about for a URB or SUB or Orchestral Bass or whatever else you want to call it.

 

[Krisfield]

Is it ok to use "stringed instrument"?

 

[Killed_by_Death]

I was just watching a video on YT titled "Famous actors who can play guitar", and right in the middle of it all was Keanu Reeves playing a bass guitar:

 

[Diamond_Dave]

Basses and guitars are great examples of convergent evolution. A strat evolved from a Spanish guitar, which evolved from a tanbur, while a p bass evolved from an upright bass, which evolved from either a viola da gamba or violin, depending on who you ask.

Sharks and dolphins.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

I'm more bothered by folks using LA when they're talking about Los Angeles.
LA = Louisiana
Los Angeles = L.A.

 

[juancaminos]

You asked "Is a Guitar a Bass? Or should the question be "Is a Bass a Guitar"? I have called my bass a guitar in a few posts but only after first establishing that I am infact talking about a Bass Guitar. Funny I've given this great thought too albeit only when writing not verbal banter.

 

[madbass6]

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?

A guitar is a guitar a bass guitar is a bass guitar period !

 

[CarpeBasso]

So what does an assault bass guitar look like?

 

[Smooth_bass88]

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.

is an F150 a car?

 

[tubedude]

I'm more bothered by folks using LA when they're talking about Los Angeles.
LA = Louisiana
Los Angeles = L.A.

LA= Los Angeles
L.A.= Lower Alabama
Left Atrium etc.

 

[tubedude]

A real Van fits a full mattress in the back, if not, it's a mommyvan.

 

[fretter]

 

[BassholeKI]

Nope it's a van.

Vans are cars, so are trucks and SUV's.

 

[SJan3]

^ This. When someone is playing a tenor sax, do you say that he is playing a TENOR? In the same way, that 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?

Yes!

Vans are cars, so are trucks and SUV's.

Mmmmaybe..

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

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?

Backwards bro. A guitar is in no way a bass. But, in all possible theories, metaphors, realities, and everything in between, a bass guitar is a guitar. Because we don't play bass bro. A bass is a low Cello. We play a guitar with big strings.

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

Is minivan a car?

Yeah, actually. So is a truck, and a semi. You're thinking of a sedan, coupe, or hatchback. They're all still cars.

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

I'm more bothered by folks using LA when they're talking about Los Angeles.
LA = Louisiana
Los Angeles = L.A.

Hahaha, I'm much more bothered by people who say they're from L.A., when they live in Lake Forest or Thousand Oaks.