People who call a bass "she"

[bassdude51]

It's what is so great about the English language. Our nouns have no gender.............unlike the Romance languages like Spanish, French, Portuguese and some other languages too.

La casa. What makes a house feminine in Spanish? Or el cielo. What makes the sky in Spanish masculine?

My 1953 P is called, "Dump Truck". So, it is an "it".

 

[GwenOnBass]

I'm French speaking, and in French, we don't have an equivalent for "it", so each word as a gender. Bass (and guitar) gender in french is female, so "she" would be grammatically correct... in French.

<-- one of those who refers to my bass as "she".

Jebberz is quite correct. Many languages hold strict rules for the gender of nouns. English is not among them. In French, when I refer to my body, I call my body a "he", respective of my gender assigned at birth.

I believe, when in doubt, ask your bass what pronouns (s)he prefers, same as one would do for people.

 

[bass4more]

You are far too busy a person then. Or much too responsible.

I'm gonna guess you're one of those guy or girls that "gets things done!"

Pfft.

I'm just paying attention to what's going on. But judging from your posting history, I do have far less free time than you.

 

[Engle]

My electrics don't seem to have a gender, but my upright is definitely female (Bessie).

 

[funkymonk13]

Doesn't bother me OP but I do find a lot of these things funny. Like when someone says "she's a beauty" about a bass
Or when someone is "thinning the herd" lol

I'm French speaking, and in French, we don't have an equivalent for "it", so each word as a gender. Bass (and guitar) gender in french is female, so "she" would be grammatically correct... in French.

Didn't realize French used genders. Pretty cool.

In Spanish bass is a he, but guitar is a she.
El bajo for bass, and La guitarra is a she

 

[basscapes]

Named all three of my instruments-

Yamaha BBN4 is "Torrance"

My Aria SB was called "Missy"

And my other Yamaha BB (P-bass) was called "Big Red" (because she was, red).

They are all names from characters in a 90's movie... Now there's your trivia Q for the day!

 

[jnuts1]

well Suzy and Vera like their names and are very fitting for them thank you very much

 

[aaronious]

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Any more questions?

Let's go ahead and wrap this up. Point made. All other comments are useless.
This thread is over. Haha

 

[Gianni "Orlandez" Orlati]

I'm French speaking, and in French, we don't have an equivalent for "it", so each word as a gender. Bass (and guitar) gender in french is female, so "she" would be grammatically correct... in French.

I'm Italian and we are in the same conditions as in France however, in Italy guitar is a "she" but the bass is rightly a "he" eh, eh, eh ....

 

[Adam Garrett]

I gave all my cars female names because they took all of my money and gave me nothing but problems.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

They are all names from characters in a 90's movie... Now there's your trivia Q for the day!

Missy was Eliza Dushku:

from "Bring it On"

 

[GBBSbassist]

I always found it weird to name instruments in general.

 

[Fender_Bender]

I've never given proper male/female names to any inanimate objects I've had. I'll occasionally refer to my main jazz bass as "big red" because it is red. I suppose my natural J could be Blondie and my burst P Sunny, but I'd feel kinda silly saying it out loud.

 

[acmeseed]

I never though of that, my basses are either a freaking slab of useless wood if they don't play well or remain nameless when they perform.

On the other hand, I look at basses as manly objects that are meant to be used and roughed up and guitars as gentle ladies to be treated with kid gloves.

 

[DavC]

those people use their Fingers ... instead of a Pick

 

[pomegranesis]

Named all my instruments "female" names, mostly because I name them after people who happen to be women (Agatha Christie, Cassandra from PubLizity, etc.). I refer to the instruments as either "it" or "she" depending on whatever decides to exit my mouth at a given moment.

I can usually feel the difference between using grammatical gender and doing whatever it is that we do to owned objects in English:
- Grammatical gender in, say, French is a holdover from ye olden times and doesn't really reflect the object in question.
- Gendering objects in English is kinda icky; we're past that stage - if not in society, then in the language.

 

[bogwart]

My girls Maria, Anna, and Elizabeth are not fans of this convo. (All named after songs from the Counting Crows)

 

[nutdog]

I never discuss bass at all so it's not really an issue.

 

[ajschnitzelbank]

Come to think of it, I will type "she" referring to a bass, but I never say it out loud, because I think it sounds kind of lame coming out of my mouth. Maybe I have a lame online personality... strike that... EVEN LAMER online personality than in person! Hah!

 

[AztecViking]

I don't overtly sexualize or genderize my basses but I do sometimes secretly tell them that they are all "super bada$$ mutherflunckers". So how weird does that make me?

I know that all of my basses are inherently super self confident and need no such ego boost. But I sometimes tell them that anyway.