Grand piano black, is sort of more timeless than white. Me thinks. I don't care, but I think dings and dents shows up equally as bad on black or white. Apart from this if either has "old school" nitrocellulose lacquer the dings turns up sooner anyway regardless of white, black or any other color. I have had all basses, but some basses seems to just aesthetically seems to be better off to come with a certain flavor. Steinberger, or graphite basses, I prefer the black variants of it. Same with telecaster basses, they just should come with butterscotch blonde and black pickguard. Black is a color that is less time, fashion, period dependent, and NOT just for metal or hard rock. It's never ever been a deal breaker for me, any color. Recently I missed out on a white Dingwall bass (J bass) from Germanys Session Music, through the internet shop. It was sold at the same time, to another one, and they hadn't updated the site. FWIW, I do think some shapes and forms of basses - sometimes - "calls" for a certain color to be slightly more suitable than any other. When gigging I always found grand piano black basses can come across as more "classy" in some settings, espeically at gigs, where there's a dress code.
It' the same with acoustic guitars. For some strange reason, the maple fretboard on any acoustic guitar looks just a little bit too left, and weird, in spite of it being actually better quality wise, than any other wood.
If I see a black bass, it's no big deal. Or white. But black block inlays on fretboard gives me the shivers.... don't know why, at all, but some kind of tackiness, or kitsch starts to creep in. Carpentry showoff. I don't know, but having large blocks (any) in the fretboard isn't my kind. It's different than wood, and reacts differently than wood to season changes and truss rod changes, as well as feel. I want wood feel under my fingers. But this is OT. Now back to the script.
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One of my friends had a RED Yamaha short grand piano. Acoustic. Resident in living room. He got incredibly fatigued by the look of it during the course of the years. Instead of selling it, and buying a new black one, he had it all re-painted! Grand piano black. Still after a few years, it hasn't started to wear on his eyes yet. YMMV. Each to their own. His kids thought it was boring with black, and loved the shiny bright red instead...;-) It seems that black has the upper hand of white, in terms of longevity.
It' the same with acoustic guitars. For some strange reason, the maple fretboard on any acoustic guitar looks just a little bit too left, and weird, in spite of it being actually better quality wise, than any other wood.
If I see a black bass, it's no big deal. Or white. But black block inlays on fretboard gives me the shivers.... don't know why, at all, but some kind of tackiness, or kitsch starts to creep in. Carpentry showoff. I don't know, but having large blocks (any) in the fretboard isn't my kind. It's different than wood, and reacts differently than wood to season changes and truss rod changes, as well as feel. I want wood feel under my fingers. But this is OT. Now back to the script.
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One of my friends had a RED Yamaha short grand piano. Acoustic. Resident in living room. He got incredibly fatigued by the look of it during the course of the years. Instead of selling it, and buying a new black one, he had it all re-painted! Grand piano black. Still after a few years, it hasn't started to wear on his eyes yet. YMMV. Each to their own. His kids thought it was boring with black, and loved the shiny bright red instead...;-) It seems that black has the upper hand of white, in terms of longevity.
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