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Old 08-28-2009, 05:08 PM
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Question Double Bass versus Bass Guitar.

Well, to kick this off, double basses are bigger.
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Old 08-28-2009, 05:09 PM
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A contrary view: bass guitars are easier to carry around.
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Old 08-28-2009, 08:41 PM
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They don't make Bel Canto strings for bass guitar.
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Old 08-28-2009, 08:43 PM
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A contrary view: When Oren Hudson is in his pyjamas, he chooses to play a bass guitar and not a double bass.
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Old 08-28-2009, 08:46 PM
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When people come to your house and there's a bass standing the corner, they are impressed because they think someone who lives here plays the cello.
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Old 08-28-2009, 08:48 PM
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A contrary view: When women see a bass guitarist playing in a band, they think he's a guitar player and they become interested in him.
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Old 08-28-2009, 10:47 PM
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A contrary view: When Oren Hudson is in his pyjamas, he chooses to play a bass guitar and not a double bass.
Simply stated, since I've been eating so many grits, my belly gets in the way of the double bass while sitting down on Christmas morning in the sun room in Gastonia, NC in the heart of Dixie of The South, while the bass guitar is just a bit smaller and therefore easier to fit on my lap.
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Old 08-29-2009, 02:18 PM
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Good point there, Oren. When the belly is full, it chokes the vibrations of the DB! Now here's one that's got to stay FIT!!
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Old 08-29-2009, 03:25 PM
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Red face well.

First off, I can't believe I'm getting dragged in to this thread.. Self inflicted I might add.. lol

Ok, you can't play any other bass in a Symphony Orchestra other than the bowed Double bass, with some pizz when indicated.

For some parts of the music business or most actually, it is one or the other type bass as it fits. Like wearing a bathing suit or dress suit? You can't dive in a pool with a suit and tie and you can't play an Orchestra concert in the bass section (or any other section) wearing a bathing suit!
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Old 08-29-2009, 04:19 PM
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Ken, my friend, you are funnier than a Mesopotamiam bull fighter!
Many years ago I helped out by playing double bass in a combined secondary schools youth orchestra - I was teaching somewhere or other and they were short of basses. We performed in the Michael Fowler Centre, which is where the symphony orchestra plays in Wellington - a posh venue! Ken, you won't believe this, sitting behind the basses was a kid with a bass guitar, amp et al, playing along.
I guess he ignored the 'arco' instructions on his part.
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Old 08-31-2009, 02:20 PM
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Double bass is bigger. What? Have I said that before?
Okay then, double bass can be bowed to sound like an earthquake.
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Old 08-31-2009, 02:22 PM
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Bass guitar players have their own section on Ken's Corner.
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Old 08-31-2009, 06:05 PM
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So do Double Basses..
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Old 08-31-2009, 07:11 PM
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So do Double Basses..
I knew you wouldn't be able to resist that answer, birthday boy!
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Old 08-31-2009, 07:48 PM
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I knew you wouldn't be able to resist that answer, birthday boy!
Rich buddy, it's only 8/31 here.. I can't open the presents 'till mornin'..
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Old 08-31-2009, 08:21 PM
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Rich buddy, it's only 8/31 here.. I can't open the presents 'till mornin'..
Dammit! (yankee expression) I forgot we're a day ahead Down here (NZ).
Well, at least I got in first with the birthday greetings!

Better post something to keep on topic.
Um, double basses have a spike.
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Old 08-31-2009, 09:15 PM
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Dammit! (yankee expression) I forgot we're a day ahead Down here (NZ).
Well, at least I got in first with the birthday greetings!

Better post something to keep on topic.
Um, double basses have a spike.
Oh yes of course, but us 'responsible' DB players use a 'Rubber' to protect our 'tips'.. Would a BG player even bother?
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Old 08-31-2009, 11:47 PM
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Oh yes of course, but us 'responsible' DB players use a 'Rubber' to protect our 'tips'.. Would a BG player even bother?
Another good point (no pun intended) birthday boy!
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First off, I can't believe I'm getting dragged in to this thread.. Self inflicted I might add.. lol

Ok, you can't play any other bass in a Symphony Orchestra other than the bowed Double bass, with some pizz when indicated.

For some parts of the music business or most actually, it is one or the other type bass as it fits. Like wearing a bathing suit or dress suit? You can't dive in a pool with a suit and tie and you can't play an Orchestra concert in the bass section (or any other section) wearing a bathing suit!
Well, Carol Kaye worked with, I believe, the Denver Symphony for a little while on electric bass, and I personally have gone into a pool wearing a a tux (admittedly, it was more of a 'shove' than a 'dive', but the end result was the same...
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Old 09-01-2009, 07:39 AM
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Would a BG player even bother?
All we bother to do is attract the hot chicks, get to the bottom of things, then enjoy the rest of the alloted time. Sounds like fun only because it is.
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