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Name That Travel Bass...

#8
I have a Fender/DeArmond Ashbory, which works well. Pretty much as small as you can get.

The UBass is another good travel sized instrument. They are available in the original Ukelele style and now Solidbody.

I also have a Bassfish by Goldfish Guitars. It's a 4-string, passive 2 Jazz PU style bass. There's only a volume knob, so I have to assume both PUs are on at all times. The neck is thin. I can touch my finger to my thumb around the neck (and my hands are not large by any means.) The body is shaped like a fish. It was under $200 with shipping from US to Canada. Basically, it's nice travel size jazz style bass. I've been toying with the idea of picking up a googly-eye sticker to attach to the body.

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#11
I guess the question is, how do you define "travel" bass. To me it seems that the 30" scale range isn't really travel size, it's just short scale. I was thinking basses like the Traveler, Ministar or others that are designed to be tiny and usual have a very small body, are headless, and so on.

My website has 750+ bass brands. I've been trying to figure out how to categorize all this stuff and "travel" bass came up as a category.

Thanks to everyone for your input!

Terri:)
 
#13
For your purpose of categorizing, I think it is safe to leave out 30" since they are already a Short Scale category in themselves.

I reckon there should at least be one specific design aspect that makes it more portable on top of just scale length. Such as headless, built in speaker, built in headphone jack, non-standard body
(foldable), etc.

Is a Steinberger a travel bass?
 
#15
I have the Samick (or Greg Bennet) MCR-1. It's a 25" scale P-bass. The body and headstock are proportionately small, but it does not have that "travel bass" aura. Maybe you should also have a mini-scale category for the pocket basses?

Are you only going for current manufacturers or are you also covering the wide spectrum of stuff in circulation?
 
#16
arsie said:
For your purpose of categorizing, I think it is safe to leave out 30" since they are already a Short Scale category in themselves.

I reckon there should at least be one specific design aspect that makes it more portable on top of just scale length. Such as headless, built in speaker, built in headphone jack, non-standard body
(foldable), etc.

Is a Steinberger a travel bass?
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Nope Steinberger was just way ahead of it's time. It makes for for a sleek looking and sounding bass.
 
#17
The databass has a bunch of categories. For this thread I was trying to find travel basses. But "pocket basses" is a good idea. I've set that up and added Greg Bennett, Ibanez and Kala (I think the solid body U-bass qualifies)

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Thanks for the suggestion!:)

Terri

Avalon said:
I have the Samick (or Greg Bennet) MCR-1. It's a 25" scale P-bass. The body and headstock are proportionately small, but it does not have that "travel bass" aura. Maybe you should also have a mini-scale category for the pocket basses?

Are you only going for current manufacturers or are you also covering the wide spectrum of stuff in circulation?
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