Close Call

With creative editing, I came up with this:

I was thinking of mounting a hook in the corner of the room and then running a strap around the neck...and attaching both sides to the hook, but if anybody has any better suggestions, I'm all ears.

Of course, I'm talking about the cats, and not the bass. Problem solved.

 

Tell your cat to stay in first position when you are not around!!

When you use a stand or wall...well..there is always a chance for gravity (or cat) to bring the bass crashing to the floor. Why not just leave it on the floor?
If I were to use a stand, however, I would use this one www.kcstrings.com (look under accessories)

 

My teacher, who has a beautiful old bass, has a spot in the corner of a carpeted room into which he leans the bass, bridge toward the wall. Where the corners touch the wall, he has attached what looks like thick pieces of felt as cushioning.
He has cats, too.

 

One of my basses lives in the living room (coexisting with two cats) in one of the MBS bass stands I sell. Never have had a problem. If it's going to be cased I think your hook and strap idea is a good, too.

 

I bought one of the Meisel stands from Bob. Very secure...much, much more so than the type with the endpin cup. I've seen our 20+ lb Mancoon run headlong into my son's Englehardt 1/2 size while it was on that stand and it didn't move.

 

Maybe it was reminded of its primal treeness when it was knocked over. Instead of regressing to the womb, it went back to when it was felled in the forest. It's just reliving its youth and has found a reason to shout.


Or, it's possible I drank too much at the holiday party I just got home from. Hmmmmm.....

 

Unfortunately, yeah...that's a drawback of that stand design. Luckily for me, the length that I pull out my endpin will allow me to scoot the bottom of the bass forward enough that it'll sit on the stand and the endpin barely touches the floor. If I needed the endpin any longer, it'd be a problem.

I suppose you could cut a couple of pieces of 2" x 2" lumber to the length of the bottom feet and attach them to the bottoms of the feet with tie wraps or something...it'd give you an extra couple of inches, and it wouldn't really add to the bulkiness of the stand all that much.

 

Another recommend for the stands Bob sells.

As far as your questions PacMan,
I strapped 2 4x4's to the bottom of mine.
Seeing that I am a newbie I wanted to endpin to stay out when I set it on the stand.
I.e. not having to worry about the height changing on a daily basis.
It adds extra weight but is still portable.
May not be perfect for you but maybe it will rattle an idea.

CF glad to hear all is well, your about 6 weeks behind all the DB destruction stories were trendy then. Good luck with the cat.

 

I had a photo, but have lost it. My cat frequently scales my bass and hangs out on top of the neck. I just make sure that the bass is solidly on the corner, bridge toward the wall, so that she can't bring it down. So for, so lucky, I guess. I had a bass player living on my couch for a bit who didn't like the cat climbs taking place in his bass, and his solution was to leave the bag partially unzipped. This made the bag loose and the cat didn't like climbing the loosley adorned fiddle.

On the bass stand issue, have you considered taking a hole-saw to the gig with you?

 

....reminds my of the old days, before amps and good sound systems, when the piano player would come to the gig with a screwdriver and disassemble the enclosure to make it louder. The owners would go nuts.