piccolo bass?

Although really a bass, it's kinda like a 4 string guitar that happens to look like a bass. Not really worth it, although Stanley Clarke seems to like them, and IMO makes the instrument worth keeping around

 

34" is fine with me, i over shoot frets on guitar all the time anyhow..

 

Most fender guitars are 25" and all gibsons are 24"...not that it's really relevent to this thread...so, nevermind ...lol

 

I converted one of my Soundgear basses to a Piccolo for a while, but it's back to a standard bass. Was fun, just didn't have much use for it with the metal that I play.

 

I play piccolo bass, on a converted Yammy RBX270. It sounds great, such a sexy jazz tone. It's a nice recording tool.

One problem I've encountered, however, is that my top string keeps breaking when I tune to G. Would a thicker guage string stop this? ie. 30? I'm using .20 I think. It's a 34 scale bass if that helps. It's starting to bug me.



Regards



LA

 

No. You want a thinner string. A .030 will break immediately.

 

Ok, thanks for the advice. But I cant actually find a thinner string than .20 round here, even the Bass Centre London cant help me out.



Kind regards



LA

 

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/zonguitars/picbasstrin.html

But I just found out there are several .030 sets too, so you can use that gauge, just don't use a regular .030 string.

http://www.juststrings.com/lab-m20.html

 

LaBella makes a piccolo set that goes from .030 down to .012. I guess that would be tuned two octaves higher? I don't know. Here's the url: http://store.yahoo.com/juststrings/lab-m10.html

Juststrings.com will deliver to your door, too.