Interesting... I have thought about bagpipes as well. I have a practice chanter and book #1 from a reputable bagpipe school. Bass is consuming much of my free time, so I've set it aside for now, but I do love bagpipes
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If you couldn't play Bass anymore......
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Edit: I like my neighbors, otherwise it would be accordion, banjo and bagpipes.[/QUOTE]
Then you would be privy to the hundreds of banjo jokes that are well-known here in Music City. And well-hated I should add.
Don't get me started . . .
Then you would be privy to the hundreds of banjo jokes that are well-known here in Music City. And well-hated I should add.
Don't get me started . . .
Used to be a bloke here used bagpipes for busking. He'd set up next to whatever dulcimer player or PA packing guitarist and Loch Lonond away until they packed up and moved somewhere quieter. Dunno if the council changed the rules on him or someone threw his wheelchair in the river. Haven't seen him in years.
But the power and the passive aggression of those bagpipes made me think it must be the instrument you take up when you can't play lead guitar any more.
I'd play synthesizer again, that's what I did before I started playing bass.
Maybe play more guitar than I do nowadays.
I used play a bit of conga, when I had those around.
If I'd make another effort and practice more with singing I could try to join a choir.
That's how music started for me, as a kid.
Maybe play more guitar than I do nowadays.
I used play a bit of conga, when I had those around.
If I'd make another effort and practice more with singing I could try to join a choir.
That's how music started for me, as a kid.
That will only happen when I have a date with the Grim Reaper. And I intend to have my instruments cremated with me. Who know? We may still be together.
stevieg
stevieg
Why not be cremated and installed under the scratch-plate? There will always be a bit of you in the sound of the bass. You'll live on, in sonic form. Whomever plays it.
I'm so sorry to hear this. I wasn't going to answer the question proposed in this thread, but your post made me change my mind. I'm a couple months away from the two year anniversary of my double lung transplant, and for many months afterwards the nerve damage from my surgery made it nearly impossible to play. I couldn't spread my right hand fingers apart at all, and had weakness and numbness in both hands. Most of it has resolved, but there's still some tingling and atrophy. I seriously don't know what I would do if I couldn't play anymore. It has been an important part of my life for the past 37 years. I wish you all the best, and hope you can be at peace with not being able to play.
Have played violin with 12 years of classical lessons and a box of medals for winning district and state music contests and played orchestra 3 yr in junior high and high school 3 yr, 2 years on violin and one year for viola. I sat 3rd chair first violin for 5 years and ASST Principal Viola for one year.My dad's hoppy was classical violin (for over 70 years). When I graduated from high school I stopped playing both The only instrument that is fun for me to play is bass guitar; if I can't play bass I'll just listen
There's still light at the end of the tunnel hang in there as long as you both can
Wow, reading some of the difficulties others have has inspired me to play through the pain of tennis-elbow. I got the Diclofenac Sodium cream out & applied it liberally before & after playing my first session & will have another session in about an hour.
I have a small collection of Fliptops; two B18s,both 1965's, one an NL with a factory JBL 18" (that's the one in my avatar). A pair of B12XT's,both with their original Jensen Concert Series speakers. Now those would do well with a banjo. An early B15N and a later B15 with the Thiele cabinet. But my personal favorite and pride and joy is a B15 column. This is essentially a B18 head mated to a two-fifteen cabinet,with each fifteen in it's own ported enclosure.
I call it Puff The Magic Dragon.
I'd pick up the fiddle. I envy the violinists in my family, they can just hop on their bike or on the bus.
I've already taken up cigar box guitar - it has the same string spacing as a bass. But...I'm still playing bass too. 
Guitar. I wanted to play guitar from the beginning, but the band my brother had needed
a bass player. The rest is history. I am still learning to play guitar. I will always be a bassist. Even my guitar playing smacks of bassism.
a bass player. The rest is history. I am still learning to play guitar. I will always be a bassist. Even my guitar playing smacks of bassism.
If I couldn't physically play bass anymore, there'd be a lot of instruments I also couldn't play. I think I'd work on being a better singer.
