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Originally Posted by Gareth Hughes
Maybe I'm picking this up wrong but I think that Roberto is describing the angle that the neck is positioned as a result of having a large stomach (politest way I can think of saying that), ie - your belly is tilting the bass body upwards.
In other words - when seated you should only be able to see the sidedots on the neck, but standing the dots on the front of the neck are now visible. And because the neck has moved forward and up like this, the wrist has to have a sharper bend and further stretch to reach the lowest strings.
Geez, this is hard to describe, and English is the only language I speak!!
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Thank you Gareth, that's the idea, (except for the large stomach, I'm slim, instead.
A little example test. Stomach or not if you wear your bass and stand up the bottom edge of your bass will not touch your body..
this won't happen with basses with the straplock in the center of the body like the Yamaha trb6 or I played for long time or almost every bass on the market.
(this is probably why I noticed that)
ok I did some picture to explain my point:
Look at the angle between the bass and the line of the wall behind:
or the door here (notice Clifford Brown and the Double Bass bridge in the background..)
I don't have a goniometer here but this is almost 15 degrees
now see the reduced angle after the modification
Now my bass feels really good on my body..
Then this is a pic of my wrist when playing on the E string with the normal Smith strap position
you can also see very well that the bass is not straight vertical here, as you can notice when you wear your own Smith
Then here the more healty reduced wrist angle with the new strap position.
I don't want to look assumptive with that but I've been very careful to posture problems this years after a bad wrist problem and I think this can really help someone.
than my beautiful smith feels so much better and easyer to play now..
Please don't think this is a criticism. I think the Smith is by far the best bass ever built and I just love it.
It was hard to decide to drill a new hole in my beloved bass, but the result looks very good and I'll fill the original hole with another identical Dunlop straplock..