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Thunderbird Club

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RedVee said:
Who builds that?
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It’s a Savannah Thunderbird Bass Ukulele. I think they are discontinued now but very occasionally pop up in the used market. I’ve been looking for one for a couple of years now and just ran across it on Reverb.
Here’s a screen shot that might have more info…
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IIRC you’re in a Ukulele band, if so one of these would be sweet to have.

Fender also makes a pretty sweet one modeled after a P bass…
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JJR58 said:
This was the first time I ever did.
Gifted to @Engle from @GBassNorth.
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I bought a Goldtone bass uke about 10 years ago. I took it to one rehearsal and returned it the next day.
The way the rubber strings roll under my fretting hand bothers me. And you can't dig in at all on those strings. It's light touch only.

I think there are different strings available now, so I thought about getting a set for the one I won in the raffle at last year's GTG. To this point it's just been hanging on the wall.
 
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TBird1958 said:
I did try this with my Epi VP in dropped "D", it was ok-ish, not great, the band didn't notice at all - no surprise there!
The bass on the original recording is a keyboard so the low "D" isn't too mushy or ill defined. For TNH I choose to play the standard "D" and really drive the song, again, the band doesn't know what I'm actually doing, but for me it serves the song a bit better. At the two quiet breaks and the bright part a little way in I do play a "D" chord instead of a single note to give it a little more width at that point. Closest thing to a solo that I get.
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Yeah I noticed those chords! I have the drop D for the Bryan Adams tunes anyway, and I found the low sounded more like the record on those little breaks. But your approach totally works.
We have video from last week that I'll post at some point. Everybody Wants to Rule sure was a crowd pleaser!
 
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Engle said:
I bought a Goldtone bass uke about 10 years ago. I took it to one rehearsal and returned it the next day.
The way the rubber strings roll under my fretting hand bothers me. And you can't dig in at all on those strings. It's light touch only.

I think there are different stringsavailable now, so I thought about getting a set for the one I won in the raffle at last year's GTG. To this point it's just been hanging on the wall.
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Oh, no doubt on the light touch.
 
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