I thought you had to have 8 to call them an octave! Seven it's just a septet.
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What do you call your basses collectively?
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I thought you had to have 8 to call them an octave! Seven it's just a septet.
I think it meant 7 notes in an octave scale...but I had to think about that one for a minute. Octave vs. octet.
Mostly "my basses."
Although I sometimes refer to them as my "toolkit" or "arsenal" when I get asked why anyone would own so many. (I can have up to 10 in stock at a time.)
Although I sometimes refer to them as my "toolkit" or "arsenal" when I get asked why anyone would own so many. (I can have up to 10 in stock at a time.)
I call them
That's what my wife calls them or my other girlfriend. I just call them my basses.
It is my "stable of four string razors" or my "harem of axes". Actually anything aside from "my basses" is cringe-worthy.
Same. I never got assigning them gender -- and "arsenal" always sounds like overcompensation to me...
My junk. Which gets awkward when I ask if someone wants to see, or play with, 'my junk'.
I get a new bass every time my wife brings home another dog. We currently have six dogs, so I guess you could say that I have a bass pack.
I use "herd" because herds thunder.
LOL. In my day job, I work at Marshall University which is the home of the _Thundering Herd_ football team.
I don't have a name for the whole group, but I do collectively refer to my Squier Standards as "The Three Amigos!".
