flame fest warning: twelve string bass

[LifeDuringWartime]

tuned C#F#BEADGCFBbEbAb

[Ron Green]

1. Geez, they could have made two actual bass necks with that piece of maple.

[LifeDuringWartime]

2. bass

im not sure id actually call this a bass, since its frequency range is so wide

the low C# string is an octave below the C# on the B string on a 5 string bass. the open high Ab string is equivalent to the 17th fret on the high E string on a guitar.

id love to try it out

[Blue-Jay]

3. Meh.

Four strings are good enough for Victor Wooten.

[LifeDuringWartime]

4. heh

victor's great...but he also plays 5 and 6 string ;)

[Beetwasher]

5. Holy Crap! What An Unholy Monster!

Run for the hills! You just KNOW anyone who plays that is going to want a 1/2 hour bass solo in every song. :evilgrin:

[name not needed]

6. Ho-ly crap.

I'm gonna go hug my 4 string now.

:wow:

[toddzilla]

7. bah, theres another 12 string bass that is actually playable

[XNASA]

18. Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick

Absolute 12 string bass monster.

[porkrind]

8. WTF? Who thought up that monstrosity?

It's like a harp and a guitar had sex an this is their unholy union. I want to take a sledge-hammer to it! :)

[no name no slogan]

9. Needs more knobs though

There's only 12 visible-- they need one more for balance: one knob per string, plus volume.

BTW where the fsck do you buy strings for that bastard? And how the hell do you get yr hands around the neck?!?!?!?

[LifeDuringWartime]

12. i believe SIT makes the strings

the person who owns this bass probably has to use a different technique to avoid injury.

i could imagine that a band with two of these and a drummer would be interesting, at least.

[BlueEyedSon]

10. Looks more like a Chapman Stick

This is the 12-string model (the standard is 10 IIRC)

[porkrind]

11. Looks like a "bass enlargement" ad. :)

A million jokes come to mind. :)

[no name no slogan]

13. Do I sense a case of "bass envy"?

:dunce:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

15. Except your bass strings are in the center on a Chapman stick

[MamaBear]

14. She's So Heavy

Do you know how much this baby weighs? I wonder how you'd adjust the neck -- if you could at all. By the apparent size of the pickup, I'd guess you'd have to "tap" a lot.

I'll admit I think it would be fun to test drive.

[elperromagico]

16. What do you play with that? Music or cricket?

[no name no slogan]

17. why not tune it chromatically

that way, you get one whole octave of bassy goodness, without even having to use your other hand.

A whole new generation of one-armed bassists could spring up, just like they did after that Def Leppard dude lost his arm.

Or it could give a whole new meaning to the phrase "bass wanker". Your mileage may vary.