One thing I've noticed is that my Danos do not require the seasonal adjustments my Fender style basses do. The necks are incredibly stable.
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Do you think the Longhorn design is cool?
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buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
I always preferred the look of the copper colored shorthorn better. Of course, that was the first bass I ever had - back about 1977.
There was no sweet spot for intonation on mine, there was always a huge compromise where only some of the notes were going to be in tune; adjusting the bridge just changed which notes... The only tonal change I noticed was increased sustain with the adjustable bridge, but not by much. I replaced the tuners on mine after the stock tuners started wearing out (one of them went totally bad so they had to be replaced anyway), and it improved stability a bit, but most of the instability comes from the general lightweight construction. Sure, the thing won't break if you knock it over, and I am not worried about it having a structural failure, but any temperature change affects tuning, any pressure put on the instrument from just holding it and moving around etc. can affect tuning (at least this can be mitigated by being very mindfully gentle with it), and at any practice or gig I need to check/adjust the tuning before the start of a set, at the moment during the set where I switch from my main bass to the Danelectro, between any songs if I'm playing multiple tunes in a row with it, and again later on if I am using it more than once during a set. I don't know what hypothetically would make it more stable... a more solid/stiff neck, a more robust neck/body joint, better bracing inside the body? I wouldn't mind if it were a pound or two heavier, because it's so ridiculously light to begin with.
I like the Fenders in this photo but never warmed up to the Mosrite instruments they're also known for.
Not ugly. But there is something off with that width and symmetry.
Neck joint looks odd, seems like a whack can separate it from the body easily.
Neck is the same width all over the lenght.
Headstock is hard to like.
Looks kinda a toy.
Neck joint looks odd, seems like a whack can separate it from the body easily.
Neck is the same width all over the lenght.
Headstock is hard to like.
Looks kinda a toy.
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By which time that bass would have been twenty years old.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Now that particular one is definitely cool!Do you think Danelctro's Longhorn design is cool?
I actually like the look of them a lot better with F holes -
To me, they've always kind of looked like something the Star Trek space hippies would be jamming on.
That's the singer of the Good Ol' Boys! From the Blues Brothers movie! Wow...
I played a couple of Mosrites... was kind of enough for me to not GAS on them anymore.
I picked up a UniVox HiFlier , a Japanese Mosrite copy from the mid 60's. It's almost as light as a Dano , and sounds really nice. After I picked it up a number of friends that had owned Mosrites told me the Flier was a better bass.
I've never had a Longhorn, but I do think they're cool. I do have a Dano Hodad, though. They never seemed popular and were discontinued. But I like mine, although I usually play other basses more. Also, that Hodad is one of the best balanced basses I've ever played. I think it's cool that Rinus Gerritsen used to play a Longhorn. Usually, though, when a famous bassist plays one, it's only briefly. Like Jack Bruce and John Entwistle on a few songs.
Rocker949
It was in reference to some of the dialogue from the 'Space Hippie' conversing with Spock during an early episode of Star Trek before they started a jam session
It was in reference to some of the dialogue from the 'Space Hippie' conversing with Spock during an early episode of Star Trek before they started a jam session
