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Four strings are three chords and the truth. Five strings are three chords, the truth, and a pizza.

Love my 5 string Brescian.

Holy smoke what is the gauge on that low B string?!

Cool strings, what are they?

Tragic

Adam Booker this is sad. 🦆 tape bass repair

Been there. Gotta do what ya gotta do!

Done that

Held a seam closed for a concert once.

~*~ Oh, NO - poor baby! 😟😢😭

Maybe don’t rest on the top though??!

Ti's but a scratch

Using the method shown in the Rufus Reid method book?

Just like book! Impressive.

Rufus Reid has a section in The Evolving Bassist on how to properly take a double bass on an airplane and this looks textbook. When I first read this section, I thought to myself, 'who the heck would actually do this?' You sure showed me! Well done!

What happens when the person in front slams their seat back? 😬

Upside down, wow 😲

Mine experienced the train 😀

What size bass?

Why aren’t you sitting in first class with the Bass?

On a bus, in the Middle East:

Which airline let you do that?

What’s the matter? Did Eric already have the company jet booked?

I’ve never had to do the bass in seat .... but I believe Rufus’s illustration had the bass the top facing up? Been 20 years since I’ve seen but I’ve always thought this made more sense with the neck and I’m guessing there is some support from where the fingerboard meets the block on the seat. Am I wrong?

The key is getting back home lol . I did this 2x in the early 90’s to LA.. it felt weird lol

You should play for them!! I’m sure the other passengers would love that!

Is the bass is taking 2 seats?

When the Rufus Reid book came out, there was a much more space in airline cabins/seats. Is that really a 3/4 size bass or something smaller or more shallow?

I see it is on the middle seat. Is the window seat available or is the bass obstructing it?

Looks like some good company my friend!

Teach me your ways, oh master.

Textbook... If your textbook is 70's the evolving bassist

What sorsoriy is this

D:

😉

ditto

What?!? Bass in the cabin in 2019?!?!? I have SO MANY questions 😮🙌🏾😮

That Ted's replacement?

On the plane or the under? I brought mine years ago but I think it was a military charter flight

Nice axe

Did you have to play the upright bass to prove to TSE that it was indeed an upright bass?

You saw what those bastards did to Pattitucci’s bass right?

looks like a few layers of glue and varnish....

Jeremy Lane, is this yours?

What's that wood on the sides?

Pure beauty

love purfling

That's big how many square inches inside?

Rib depth?

How beautiful!

Great picture! Love your page.

I want to make an upright. I have Chandler’s book and some other violin making books. The tonewood is so expensive though and then the tools . . . . . I have looked for upright kits online. Funny thing is, there’s a white kit for almost every other stringed instrument except for the double bass. There’s even an free pdf for an octave mandolin up on google. I still think it would be fun to try and make a bass . . . . .

A wood post, eh?

Best thing about a tree is what you make out of it.

So cool and mojo-supercharged instruments !

I love my 1930s Kay. Wish the top weren't delaminating - it has so many stories in that wood!

I might be sitting right next to this bass right now!

Beautiful! Lacy Tier enjoys hers immensely. Always receiving compliments. Just had bridge sanded, Bass Violin Shop, and the action is to her liking.

Of course it is ! 🎻👍

I was going to publish The English F Hole, but the publisher misunderstood.

Is Tom still selling basses or did he go out of business?

True

Let’s blame the foreigners by all means. Somebody buying the instruments made an economic choice ...

Christ, I just follow your because I like Basses, you don’t have to drag politics into it and get all nationalistic