What's so great about 6 strings?

[iplaybass]

I am now seriously considering naming my kid Pie Zoman.

 

[john turner]

Originally posted by SuperDuck


Pee (giggle) ay zo. Peeayzo. Piezo.

NOT Pye-zo, or muf-fin. Piezo.

it can also be pronounced pie-eee-zo.

 

[Brad Johnson]

Originally posted by dancehallclasher


i don't know what you're talking about but my 6 lets me play H, and H#. maybe yours is defective?

Great... now we'll have another H#/Ib debate.

Thanks, DHC.

 

[DarkMazda]

and a 7-string ( date unknown ):

JT needs one of those

DM

 

[luisnovelo]

look piezoman, If you can handle the width of a 6 string neck, it means you have large hands.
If ou have large hands, it means you have a big package down there.

 

[embellisher]

Size of hands does not necessarily relate to size of package. I have small hands, but I have been told my 'package' is not small.

 

[boogiebass]

Originally posted by embellisher
Size of hands does not necessarily relate to size of package. I have small hands, but I have been told my 'package' is not small.

You were obviously lied to. If your hands are small, you're a field mouse down there.

 

[embellisher]

Originally posted by boogiebass


You were obviously lied to. If your hands are small, you're a field mouse down there.

Well, it measures 'above average', so there!

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Originally posted by embellisher


Well, it measures 'above average', so there!

What's 'above average' for a field mouse?



j/k

 

[Oysterman]

Originally posted by dancehallclasher
i don't know what you're talking about but my 6 lets me play H, and H#. maybe yours is defective?

It's actually a (stupid) Swedish tradition to call the B note H, thanks to some dimwit who slipped with his pen a couple of hundred years ago. AHCDEFG. Down with the system!

 

[godoze]

Actually B flat is pronounced in German as an "H."

 

[moley]

No, it's B that is H, not B flat. B flat is called B and B is called H.

So really, any bass is defective if it won't let you play H and H#!

 

[godoze]

you're right... sorry about the misinformation I was thinking of the Shostakovitch cello concerto that spells BACH - b flat,a, c, b...and confused myself.

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

Originally posted by godoze
you're right... sorry about the misinformation I was thinking of the Shostakovitch cello concerto that spells BACH - b flat,a, c, b...and confused myself.

I've never heard that one - although I know he used his signature/initials : DSCH - in several works as a motif.

 

[moley]

Originally posted by godoze
you're right... sorry about the misinformation I was thinking of the Shostakovitch cello concerto that spells BACH - b flat,a, c, b...and confused myself.

I think it was actually one of Bach's own compositions that used the Bb A C B to spell Bach.

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

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S = Eb

 

[Chad Michael]

Originally posted by john turner
6 strings suck.

John, please be sure to tell J. Patitucci, A. Jackson, John Myung, Mr. Claypool, & J. Haslip (and about a bazillion others).

I'm sure they're rather naive about this sort of thing....



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[godoze]

now i am confusing bach and shostakovitch ? And to think, I was a musicology major...

 

[Chad Michael]

Originally posted by BassSaxMan


Just how IS piezo pronounced?

First, say "pee"


Then, say "AAYY"


Finally, say "zoh"


Put it all together now....

(Oh, screw it..... just say it wrong like the rest of the world... Don't get me started with all the wrong pronunciations of 'asterisk')


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[Chad Michael]

Originally posted by bimplizkit


John, please be sure to tell J. Patitucci, A. Jackson, John Myung, Mr. Claypool, & J. Haslip (and about a bazillion others).

I'm sure they're rather naive about this sort of thing....



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Re: six strings suck

BTW, the above mentioned bassists may be inclined to pick up their "one string shy of not sucking" basses, improvise a bass solo, on the spot, for your benefit, that will make you wet yourself.



John - all in good fun, k?

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