too many strings

[J-Bass RMR]

3 pages in and no one's figured it out?
Flats on the bottom. Rounds on the top.
Can't you hear it?!


wait - maybe it's the other way around...

 

[Ric5]

3 pages in and no one's figured it out?
Flats on the bottom. Rounds on the top.
Can't you hear it?!


wait - maybe it's the other way around...

I was thinking stainless steels and nickel wound strings ... well not really ...

 

[Watchootognbout]

This beast is not to be called a bass guitar. You can't play a normal bass parts, because you can't reach the needed strings.

And after the song,Dusty proceeds to sit on a stool and do this.
And the audience goes silent..........the joke boys hang their heads in embarrassment.

 

[Headless horse]

And after the song,Dusty proceeds to sit on a stool and do this.
And the audience goes silent..........the joke boys hang their heads in embarrassment.

What does he proceed to use on the ground?

 

[BlueTalon]

And after the song,Dusty proceeds to sit on a stool and do this.
And the audience goes silent..........the joke boys hang their heads in embarrassment.

Fretted harp.

 

[Ric5]

It looks like the 2 bottom strings are fatter.

so is this the Elwood ZZ Top Fender Signature bass?

and that Fender nameplate on the headstock looks like it is the old style ones from the vingage amps.

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[Michedelic]

Why are you codgers all clutching your pearls when there’s been Trey Gunn and Tony Levin playing the Warr and Chapman Stick for years, plus Cheap Trick’s Tom Petersson with his 12-string bass? Then there’s Animals As Leaders.
Oh, and yes, there’s been tracks at ZZ Top shows for decades. I saw them in ‘85, at the height of the sequencer years, and there was that plus ghost rhythm guitar parts.

 

[Ric5]

I don't know. man. I'm not completely convinced that wasn't playing to tracks and faking it on the "bass". That is, unless that "thing" has a low E string on both the top and bottom.

this bass clearly has 2 fat strings on the bottom

 

[BlueTalon]

I just had a wild thought. Can you imagine what that instrument would look like with True Temperament frets?