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edr

edr

Mar 28, 2019
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#1
There's a spot on my wall that could hold a bass if it was pretty narrow. The spot is about 10 inches wide, minus some for clearance. What would you put there?
Some ideas:

1: Hofner Shorty Bass. I saw a used CT at the store today. They were selling it for 100usd, which seems reasonable for the quality. It's not great!
(There are also shorty violin basses that look like they would suffer less from the issues the CT faced, which was terrible balance and poor pickup placement)
2: Ubass and similar. I'm assuming a solid body ubass could fit in these dimensions. I used to have a Journeyman.Nevermind, lower bout is 10.25 inches on the solid body.
3: Steinberger boat-oar shaped basses and related copies. I used to have a spirit XT-25. I'd probably look for a vintage steinberger (likely copy) instead. There seems to be vertical hangers for this kind of bass, at least with the 4-string ones. Liking the Hohner and Westone ones, the original Steinbergers probably way out of my range.
4: Traveler basses. Don't like.

Just a fun mental exercise when I should be practicing.
 
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Ashbory?

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cnltb said:
There is a mini Stick?
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Chapman Stick - Wikipedia)

There's a couple models that are guitar scale nowadays

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  • The Stick (10 strings, 5 melody & 5 bass/6 melody & 4 bass, other custom tunings and set-ups, 36" scale length)
  • The Railboard (10 strings, a 1-piece CNC-cut thru-neck aluminum beam with 9 pieces bolted-on including headstock, bridge, new R-Block pickup module, 34" scale)
  • Grand Stick (12 strings, 6 melody & 6 bass/7 melody & 5 bass, other custom tunings and set-ups, 36" scale length)
  • 10-String Grand Stick (10 strings installed on a wooden or laminated bamboo "blanks" for the Grand Stick 12-string model, thus creating a wider fretboard & string spacing for a 10-string Stick. Center-to-center string spacing is 0.350" as opposed to 0.315" on standard 10-string Sticks. The space between the "melody" & "bass" groups of strings is also wider, at 0.500" instead of the standard 0.430". Same 5 melody & 5 bass/6 melody & 4 bass, custom tunings and set-ups & 36" scale length as the standard 10-string Stick)
  • Stick Bass (SB8) (8 strings, undivided "straight 4ths" B-Bb bass guitar or B-A electric guitar intervals tuning, standard Stick 4 melody & 4 bass, other custom tunings and set-ups, 36" scale length)
  • NS/Stick (8 strings set up for plucking, strumming, or tapping in standard bass or guitar intervals, standard Stick 5 melody & 5 bass, other custom tunings and set-ups; co-invented by Chapman & Ned Steinberger, 34" scale length)
  • Alto Stick (10 strings, 5 melody + 5 accompaniment, with shorter scale length for a more guitar-like range, 26.5" scale length)
  • Stick Guitar (12 strings, 2 groups of 6, with shorter scale length for a more guitar-like range, 26.5" scale length)
Stick, and Stick Bass are 36"-scale, but the older production models were 34" scale.
 
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Pauly 4001 said:
Chapman Stick - Wikipedia)

There's a couple models that are guitar scale nowadays

"
  • The Stick (10 strings, 5 melody & 5 bass/6 melody & 4 bass, other custom tunings and set-ups, 36" scale length)
  • The Railboard (10 strings, a 1-piece CNC-cut thru-neck aluminum beam with 9 pieces bolted-on including headstock, bridge, new R-Block pickup module, 34" scale)
  • Grand Stick (12 strings, 6 melody & 6 bass/7 melody & 5 bass, other custom tunings and set-ups, 36" scale length)
  • 10-String Grand Stick (10 strings installed on a wooden or laminated bamboo "blanks" for the Grand Stick 12-string model, thus creating a wider fretboard & string spacing for a 10-string Stick. Center-to-center string spacing is 0.350" as opposed to 0.315" on standard 10-string Sticks. The space between the "melody" & "bass" groups of strings is also wider, at 0.500" instead of the standard 0.430". Same 5 melody & 5 bass/6 melody & 4 bass, custom tunings and set-ups & 36" scale length as the standard 10-string Stick)
  • Stick Bass (SB8) (8 strings, undivided "straight 4ths" B-Bb bass guitar or B-A electric guitar intervals tuning, standard Stick 4 melody & 4 bass, other custom tunings and set-ups, 36" scale length)
  • NS/Stick (8 strings set up for plucking, strumming, or tapping in standard bass or guitar intervals, standard Stick 5 melody & 5 bass, other custom tunings and set-ups; co-invented by Chapman & Ned Steinberger, 34" scale length)
  • Alto Stick (10 strings, 5 melody + 5 accompaniment, with shorter scale length for a more guitar-like range, 26.5" scale length)
  • Stick Guitar (12 strings, 2 groups of 6, with shorter scale length for a more guitar-like range, 26.5" scale length)
Stick, and Stick Bass are 36"-scale, but the older production models were 34" scale.
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I would expect the smallest one to be called a Sticcolo.
 
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There's quite a few "punkbass" models from Krappy Guitars that would qualify for this thread

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I used to have a custom made one that was a fretted 3 string, but like 1/4 of a 12 string bass. A single bass string with 2 octave strings. It wasn't a stick bass style design like this, but still quite a slim little fella

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