Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[LBS-bass]

Note the mute sponge. It looks like a yellow sponge with maybe a piece of green felt in top. It provides a good sound, something that I'll try. I have felt picks (Dunlop) that make a nice muted sound over any other type of pick. So felt on a mute isn't a stretch. On a pick it works well.

The song is well played.

I'm guessing that's just a cut down kitchen sponge with a scrubby side, like this one I have in my kitchen. Be interesting if that scrubby bit works to make it better.

 

[LBS-bass]

I thought the same and wondered how a scouring pad would affect the strings. At a hardware store today I saw a tile grouting sponge with a thick microfiber layer on the top. I wonder if anything more than a sponge would be needed. That's all that Fender supplied with their PBasses back then.

Oh, I see I need to actually RTF replies before I speak

 

[GonePlaid]

About like Groundskeeper Willie showering with a bar of Lava soap, I'd imagine.

Kinda impossible to quote ol' Willie here.

 

[GonePlaid]

Oh, I see I need to actually RTF replies before I speak

I've done the same countless times. Occasionally I'll go back and delete mine.....or not.

 

[beans-on-toast]

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I'm guessing that's just a cut down kitchen sponge with a scrubby side, like this one I have in my kitchen. Be interesting if that scrubby bit works to make it better.

I’m going to try it as soon as the grocery stores get them back in stock. I’ve seen ones just like yours.

BTW, sheet music is here, download gp7 file, a free app to display the music notation is available on the guitar-pro site.

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[alaskaleftybass]

Those are Imperial Japanese aircraft listening stations for field deployment.
In effect, a very large stethoscope to listen for approaching aircraft, detect them at the furthest range then possible (before radar), and direct antiaircraft artillery fire upon them.
Actually, they were surprisingly effective until the advent of high altitude (20,000 ft+) bombers.
Other nations had similar devices until supplanted by radar.

The Japanese Army found a way to attach tuba mouthpieces and when not scanning the skies for bombers they planned on starting a walking parade band. However they found that the noise of the diesel trucks pulling the tubas exceeded the volume of the oversized tubas. Sadly an idea that didn't quite pan out.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I expect Japanese martial music sounds like all martial music. Also expect bagpiper combat mortality is very high.

 

[chupacerveza]

Sadly Taylor Guitar's Andy Powers has recently begun using the term "lung capacity" to help describe acoustic guitar capability. It's in the latest W&S propaganda rag. Makes me want to burn the Taylor I have. Hey, how many BTUs can one get from the average Taylor guitar?

I’ll pay shipping if you really wanna get rid of it!

 

[mikeoso]

Got my first of what I expect will be many calls today. Woman's husband is working from home, and threatening divorce if she doesnt get rid of her parrot....noise issue. Before anyone snorts...this species can hit 135 dB, and will do it whenever alarmed. 155 is a 12 ga shotgun.

 

[GonePlaid]

I expect Japanese martial music sounds like all martial music. Also expect bagpiper combat mortality is very high.

Friendly fire?

 

[Passinwind]

I expect Japanese martial music sounds like all martial music. Also expect bagpiper combat mortality is very high.

Gunhild Carling at last month's Portland show: "This bagpipe solo is only going to take half an hour, but it'll feel much longer."

Who says the Swedish have no sense of humor?

 

[spiritbass]

Gunhild Carling at last month's Portland show: "This bagpipe solo is only going to take half an hour, but it'll feel much longer."

 

[ahc]

A bagpipe story for you:


Round about 1977 the Top 40/Variety band I was with played the Jackson, Mississippi airport Holiday Inn. It was a good night in the club. Decent size responsive crowd that was dancin' and drinkin'. A guy walks in in full regalia, kilts and all, with bagpipes. He asks the manager if he can play during the band's break. The manager agrees. We finish our set and the piper marches to the center of the dance floor. He begins to play. The club empties out. Candles and ashtrays and a few stragglers left when we take the stage for the next set. Later that night the manager walks up to us shaking his head and tells us that that was the dumbest thing he's ever done. Be afraid my friends, be very afraid.

 

[GonePlaid]

Got my first of what I expect will be many calls today. Woman's husband is working from home, and threatening divorce if she doesnt get rid of her parrot....noise issue. Before anyone snorts...this species can hit 135 dB, and will do it whenever alarmed. 155 is a 12 ga shotgun.

That's rough.

 

[GonePlaid]

A bagpipe story for you:


Round about 1977 the Top 40/Variety band I was with played the Jackson, Mississippi airport Holiday Inn. It was a good night in the club. Decent size responsive crowd that was dancin' and drinkin'. A guy walks in in full regalia, kilts and all, with bagpipes. He asks the manager if he can play during the band's break. The manager agrees. We finish our set and the piper marches to the center of the dance floor. He begins to play. The club empties out. Candles and ashtrays and a few stragglers left when we take the stage for the next set. Later that night the manager walks up to us shaking his head and tells us that that was the dumbest thing he's ever done. Be afraid my friends, be very afraid.

Check this out.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Got my first of what I expect will be many calls today. Woman's husband is working from home, and threatening divorce if she doesnt get rid of her parrot....noise issue. Before anyone snorts...this species can hit 135 dB, and will do it whenever alarmed. 155 is a 12 ga shotgun.

That’s louder than a jackhammer.

I use David Clark model 27 hearing protectors but they are hard to wear all day because of the pressure on the head. Ones with gel ear pads are more comfortable. The electronic noise cancelling ones are quite expensive.

Hearing Protectors

Is there some sort of sound mufflers that you recommend?

 

[mikeoso]

Care givers must use need protection of some sort. That’s louder than a jackhammer.

I use David Clark model 27 hearing protectors but they are hard to wear all day because of the pressure on the head. Ones with gel ear pads are more comfortable. The electronic noise cancelling ones are quite expensive.

Hearing Protectors

Is there some sort of sound mufflers that you recommend?

huh?

 

[mikeoso]

Anything suitable for a firing range or the tarmac at an airport works.

 

[Polish Thunder]

Check this out.

Hey GonePlaid, you look a lot different without your beard....wait! That's not you playing bass in the video. My bad.

FWIW, I would hate to be in the front row of that group on a windy day...if you know what I mean...

 

[spiritbass]

I've never measured the SPL of the table-top paper folder that I operate, but a friend who used to work for 3M blessed me with some very comfortable headphone-style sound suppressing devices that knock down its sound (like machine gun fire!) nicely. I think they are called "Shotgunners". I wear them over my ear buds so I can listen to my current audio book...