Wouldn't anyone play a metric bass?

[Nev375]

Football is a real man's game that leaves men battered and crippled for life. Soccer is what suburbanites take their not-particularly-athletic kids to play on the weekend. See the difference?

One-up!

 

[Deleted member 165050]

Rock & Roll is 'Merican

Electric Basses are 'Merican

Inches are 'Merican

Now shut up

Actually inches are British

We will be returning to our Imperial measurement system next year I believe...

 

[40Hz]

Have a look at the Ric website. Scale length is listed first as 84.5 cm with 33 1/4" listed behind it in brackets. Sorry America, you lose!

I don't get the "Sorry America, you lose!" part. Rickenbacker is an American made instrument.

 

[Nev375]

Actually inches are British

We will be returning to our Imperial measurement system next year I believe...

Metrexit?

 

[Father Gino]

I've read that it was actually some English dude that invented the metric system. So you British or English (or whatever you guys are) gave up the right to claim inches.

 

[Coolhandjjl]

My son works at a wood shop. He's struggling with figuring out how to add things like 7-5/8" + 3-11/32" or subtracting 12-9/64" - 2-1/8" all on the fly, quickly.

My advice to him was switch to metric and be done.

 

[Leo Thunder]

I've read that it was actually some English dude that invented the metric system. So you British or English (or whatever you guys are) gave up the right to claim inches.

The metric system is French. Whatever, I know who has not invented culture.

 

[dxb]

I'm old school, I measure my bass scales in ancient Egyptian royal cubits.

 

[MJ_Sotti]

@saabfender, I am afraid you re not even joking So let me fix that for you:


There is a world out there you know right? And in this world, pretty much every kid kicks around a ball. A soccer ball as you would call it

Yeah. But it's like watching paint dry.

Wait...let me add to that. When a soccer player runs by another soccer player and misses him by a foot (or whatever it would be called in the "good" countries of the world) and the soccer player falls to the ground and writhes in pain for 5 minutes...THAT'S pretty entertaining.

 

[Whippet]

NO, IT ISN'T !!!

my bad, a metric p bass.

 

[Deleted member 165050]

I've read that it was actually some English dude that invented the metric system. So you British or English (or whatever you guys are) gave up the right to claim inches.

Seems we're only partly to blame: Metrication, metric conversion, and other Metrication matters: Who invented the metric system?

 

[BigBigGuy44]

I thought I read somewhere that Leo used a 34" scale and 3/4" string spacing. Does anyone know when string spacing was switched to millimeters?

 

[micguy]

Metric basses don't make sense. 10 strings is too many, 10 frets too few.

 

[Flamingo21]

Metric basses don't make sense. 10 strings is too many, 10 frets too few.

My P-bass has
(1+1)x10 frets, and
(2/5)x10 strings.

So it's perfectly doable.

 

[MattZilla]

Have a look at the Ric website. Scale length is listed first as 84.5 cm with 33 1/4" listed behind it in brackets. Sorry America, you lose!

With Ric waiving the French flag by attempting to use l'système métrique is one loss. But then to round not either
84.45516891033782 cm or 33.26765 inches but rounding both of them just shows the world that we Amricuns just aren't to be trusted with sharp objects.

A 39.37" scale bass? Nah, that's a clumsy number.

I like Liter Bikes, they're fast. A Meter Bass would be pretty sweet except for the stretch from the first to the fourth fret.

 

[Lesfunk]

Mine is metric. I play at 863.6 mm scale bass with 19 mm string spacing

 

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One-up!

The odd thing about that is more people get very seriously injured in "safe rugby" than in real rugby. Rugby has lots more minor injuries, but fewer serious injuries, than American football because you just can't afford to hit someone that hard when you're not wearing pads yourself.

 

[bearfoot]

Scale length is ultimately an approximation.

Since it was standardized for bass guitar in inches, so follows the naming convention.

The odd thing about that is more people get very seriously injured in "safe rugby" than in real rugby. Rugby has lots more minor injuries, but fewer serious injuries, than American football because you just can't afford to hit someone that hard when you're not wearing pads yourself.

And we are also talking about vastly different weight / strength classes represented on the field in the NFL. Size matters.

 

[Nev375]

The odd thing about that is more people get very seriously injured in "safe rugby" than in real rugby. Rugby has lots more minor injuries, but fewer serious injuries, than American football because you just can't afford to hit someone that hard when you're not wearing pads yourself.

So... What you are saying is that America took a perfectly good sport and "improved" upon it by adding safety equipment and in doing so, has created a sport which is less safe?

 

[bholder]

So... What you are saying is that America took a perfectly good sport and "improved" upon it by adding safety equipment and in doing so, has created a sport which is less safe?

That seems to be the case to me, yes. Depends on your definition of "safe", I suppose, but yeah, I can't watch it anymore.