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Hi

I do remember reading or hearing once, that a good way to go to get your 
hands on a reasonably affordable 6-string bass was to get a baritone guitar 
(fretted or unfretted as per choice) and then string it with some specially 
made D'Addarios. If I remember, the type particularly mentioned was the 
XL155. I could be wrong on the model number because I didn't write it down 
straight away although I meant to.

Do any of you out there have any experience of doing something like this?

Seems like it could be a good way to go because from what I've seen one can 
get perfectly reasonable (fretted) baritones starting at around the 
$400-$600 mark (please don't laugh at me!!!). But ... I really wouldn't 
want to do this, with my present relative lack of funds, if it turned out 
that the sounds and possibilities were not quite what I wanted and that in 
the long run it had been a waste of time and money.

I'm quite prepared to go down to my local music shop to see if they'd get 
some of those strings in, then pick up a baritone, and plead with them to 
string one up and let me play around with it for a while ... but what with 
the vast experience that I'm sure is present amongst you lot, I kind of 
figured that this would be as good a good place as any to start.

Any of you got any thoughts on this? Or done anything like it?
Do those D'Addarios do the job they're supposed to, or is there some other 
set of strings that anyone would recommend. You get the picture.

Any input would be very greatly appreciated. My thanks is all you'll get, 
actually, but I hope it'll be enough. (Well ... that and a mention in the 
credits of the hit album that I'll create once I get such an instrument!!)

Thanks.

Kool Musick
Keep Musick Kool


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