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Old 11-04-2008, 12:03 PM
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Thumbs up 5 to 4 dual use..

I had another HUGE 5er loaned to me a few months back. The B-string was off the Bridge with some foam under the string touching the Bridge and upper edge of the Top, slightly tightened with only the regular 4-strings tuned up.

On this Bass I just did something similar BUT, I cut different notches in the Bridge that are wider for 4-string and moved all the Strings over. Now it's like a regular 4-string with the 5th string on the side to be used (with the other 4 strings moved back) for when I actually need that low B.

What I have now is a HUGE 4-string Bass with the dimensions of a full sized 5-string. Sounds DEEP.
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