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#139,781
PillO said:
BIMT - Big Imposing Mahogany Thunderbird!
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speaking of mahogany...my buddy's new Taylor..
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#139,782
PillO said:
French Canadians routinely have trouble in France and particularly in Paris. The problem is that the immigrants from France to Canada in the 1700s were poor farmers looking for opportunity in the new world. As a result they brought with them peasant French (and it hasn't evolved as Parisian French has). It isn't that the French can't understand French Canadians, most of them just don't want to.

I, on the other hand, learned Parisian French in school and so have no trouble communicating with the French in Paris. I also use words they recognize like faire du shopping and le weekend that are forbidden in Quebec
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Our family ancester came over in 1692 after being given a choice: rope or boat. Lucky for my bandmates, he chose the boat. I also recently learned we share the same given name and surname, so I'm currently shopping boats, just to be on the safe side. As for Parisians, I dated one living in Montreal for about a year eons ago, so... yeah.
 
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#139,789
Miles_ONeal said:
I just created my first Reverb listing. Good grief.
Those of you who have sold on Reverb:
  1. Did you use a bump?
  2. If so, what %?
  3. If so, did you think it helped?
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I used the ‘bump’ the first couple times, but not sure it did anything...you can slightly edit the ad every few days, drop asking price by a small amount, etc., and that bumps it
 
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#139,790
Bassmike62 said:
lolll

I'ze born and raised French-Canadian (Quebec province, just across the river from Ottawa, in a city called Gatineau) and even find some of our "dialects" sometimes hard to follow.

People from the the Madeleine Islands often talk rather fast with their own accents, so one really has to pay attention to understand them.

Then you have your typical Saguenay Lac St-Jean area resident, who usually has a drawl that recalls what you hear from Texans and Alabamians and uses words and expressions that have a different significance to him than to other French-Canadians.

And of course, people from my native area are to some extent rather strongly influenced by English Canadian and American languages and cultures, so that gives way to interesting variations as well. I worked in Ottawa and various parts of Ontario and had frequent contact with the Franco-Ontarians and they also have differences in their French.

We're quite the language mosaic up here :).
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The romance languages are like that, those derived from Latin. I think Italian may be the worse offender of separate dialects by region. Growing up bilingually it could be said that I was actually tri-lingual since my parents came from two very distinct regions of Italy. My mom was a northerner and she spoke the National language, Tuscan. My dad was from the area around Naples and he spoke his regional dialect with all of his "people" from that region but spoke Tuscan in our home unless he slipped into the dialect to be funny. I heard enough of both to become proficient in both and learned both before ever learning English even though I was born in the US.

I have some funny memories around the two versions of Italian I was subjected to with my mom laughing and rolling her eyes when my dad would speak his dialect around his people and she would exclaim, "What kind of Arabic are you speaking." It was meant to be funny and not mean and it still makes me laugh.

Here's an example of how far apart the two languages could be:

English: Turn on the light.
Tuscan: Accendi la luce. Proper Italian spoken as, "Ah chen dee lah loo sheh."
Regional Dialect: Ah peach ah loosh. No real spelling to speak of but it sounds like I wrote it.

I'm happy to know Tuscan and somewhat know the other though I'd have a hard time getting along in Southern Italy with only their dialect to rely on.

8 Facts About the Italian Language — CORE Languages

With grade school educations becoming the norm post-WW2, the National language is spoken and understood everywhere in Italy but the dialects persist.
 
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#139,793
Morning fellow bird-lovers... what was the T-bird thread doing on page 2??? Anyway, check this out. Don't have any info on it but it looks very interesting - most likely a new relic'd II to my eyes. The bridge is not original (original's narrower and wouldn't allow for correct intonation), the pg is not original (tug-bar holes are in the wrong place, bird too high up on the pg), but.., the body looks legit judging its edge-contours - especially at the bottom edge into the center piece. Looks exactly like my '64 II. And the Gibson Gold would have been a very, very rare one-off custom color if it's legit. It also has the correct black spacer under the pu and the knobs 'look' original.

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#139,794
JIO said:
Morning fellow bird-lovers... what was the T-bird thread doing on page 2??? Anyway, check this out. Don't have any info on it but it looks very interesting - most likely a new relic'd II to my eyes. The bridge is not original (original's narrower and wouldn't allow for correct intonation), the pg is not original (tug-bar holes are in the wrong place, bird too high up on the pg), but.., the body looks legit judging its edge-contours - especially at the bottom edge into the center piece. Looks exactly like my '64 II. And the Gibson Gold would have been a very, very rare one-off custom color if it's legit. It also has the correct black spacer under the pu and the knobs 'look' original.

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That is one good looking bass. I don’t care for the bridge (complaint about a Thunderbird’s bridge? YOU DON’T SAY!), but that finish is really, really lovely.
 
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#139,795
Had my new Epi T-Bird CP for a couple days now...set it up and I've gotta say, I'm underwhelmed. Everything about the fit and finish is just meh. If I weren't pretty much just using it for a practice bass to keep in my classroom (I teach middle school aka the "hormonally challenged"), I'd be returning / selling it. My #1 is a 2019 Gibson T-Bird, which I love, and the Epi CP makes for a good practice bass as it's the same size / shape / pups. If you're ever wondering if the Gibson is worth the money...it is! I'm surprised how much I've come to love the feel of a nitro finish.
I had an Epi VP (sold it to Miles...he should get it today?), which is much nicer than the CP as well. Not having second thoughts about selling the VP, as I don't worry about keeping the CP in my classroom, and I might worry about leaving the nicer VP there (the room is locked up after hours, but still...).
 
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#139,796
FlyingPigSound said:
Had my new Epi T-Bird CP for a couple days now...set it up and I've gotta say, I'm underwhelmed. Everything about the fit and finish is just meh. If I weren't pretty much just using it for a practice bass to keep in my classroom (I teach middle school aka the "hormonally challenged"), I'd be returning / selling it. My #1 is a 2019 Gibson T-Bird, which I love, and the Epi CP makes for a good practice bass as it's the same size / shape / pups. If you're ever wondering if the Gibson is worth the money...it is! I'm surprised how much I've come to love the feel of a nitro finish.
I had an Epi VP (sold it to Miles...he should get it today?), which is much nicer than the CP as well. Not having second thoughts about selling the VP, as I don't worry about keeping the CP in my classroom, and I might worry about leaving the nicer VP there (the room is locked up after hours, but still...).
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"Locks keep honest people honest".
 
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FlyingPigSound said:
Had my new Epi T-Bird CP for a couple days now...set it up and I've gotta say, I'm underwhelmed. Everything about the fit and finish is just meh. If I weren't pretty much just using it for a practice bass to keep in my classroom (I teach middle school aka the "hormonally challenged"), I'd be returning / selling it. My #1 is a 2019 Gibson T-Bird, which I love, and the Epi CP makes for a good practice bass as it's the same size / shape / pups. If you're ever wondering if the Gibson is worth the money...it is! I'm surprised how much I've come to love the feel of a nitro finish.
I had an Epi VP (sold it to Miles...he should get it today?), which is much nicer than the CP as well. Not having second thoughts about selling the VP, as I don't worry about keeping the CP in my classroom, and I might worry about leaving the nicer VP there (the room is locked up after hours, but still...).
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I totally get it. My CP sounds like my 2013 Gibson TBird but it no way feels like it. Nothing has ever felt as good to me as my Gibson TBird IV.
 
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#139,799
Larry V said:
The romance languages are like that, those derived from Latin. I think Italian may be the worse offender of separate dialects by region. Growing up bilingually it could be said that I was actually tri-lingual since my parents came from two very distinct regions of Italy. My mom was a northerner and she spoke the National language, Tuscan. My dad was from the area around Naples and he spoke his regional dialect with all of his "people" from that region but spoke Tuscan in our home unless he slipped into the dialect to be funny. I heard enough of both to become proficient in both and learned both before ever learning English even though I was born in the US.

I have some funny memories around the two versions of Italian I was subjected to with my mom laughing and rolling her eyes when my dad would speak his dialect around his people and she would exclaim, "What kind of Arabic are you speaking." It was meant to be funny and not mean and it still makes me laugh.

Here's an example of how far apart the two languages could be:

English: Turn on the light.
Tuscan: Accendi la luce. Proper Italian spoken as, "Ah chen dee lah loo sheh."
Regional Dialect: Ah peach ah loosh. No real spelling to speak of but it sounds like I wrote it.

I'm happy to know Tuscan and somewhat know the other though I'd have a hard time getting along in Southern Italy with only their dialect to rely on.

8 Facts About the Italian Language — CORE Languages

With grade school educations becoming the norm post-WW2, the National language is spoken and understood everywhere in Italy but the dialects persist.
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OUU! Guaglione!!!
 
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