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Are you monogamous? Or do you play around?

Do you only own electric basses

  • Yes, I don’t own anything but basses

    Votes: 75 18.2%
  • No I have bass (es) and guitar (s)

    Votes: 95 23.0%
  • No I have basses and other instruments

    Votes: 231 55.9%
  • I just come here for the discussion no bass.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I play bass as a second or third instrument.

    Votes: 12 2.9%

  • Total voters
    413
It’s nice to see that most in the polls have not limited themselves to ONLY one instrument. Bass, guitar, drums and some keys… only gigging bass these days but record all others.
 
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Do you have other instruments other than bass? How many of us play guitar? How many don’t have guitar? What about other instruments? Do you not own any bass, just like the chat?)

(Please don’t talk about your romantic life. No judgement from me. I just don’t want to know).

I own and play bass (2), and guitar (2), and have the ability to play brass instruments, but it’s been years since I’ve played one so my chops are a little rusty.
 
I started on recorder at age 3, then went to piano and clarinet and in 6th grade decided I wanted to play oboe. In 7th grade, I started playing bass and eventually made my living with it for quite a few years. Oboe was too difficult to keep up with, but I did try to get back to it about 5 years. Nope. And making reeds is full time job.

I also play guitar to some extent, even did a couple of jazz gigs until my jamming partner moved away and life got busy. These days, I use guitar to play when I teach bass in order to have a chordal instrument. But bass is still where the income is.
 
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