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Dennis Gunn wrote:

>The Fender Six string baritone has been around for years.  That guy
>who used to play in the Lovin Spoonful and went on to a solo career
>tears one up.

Hi Dennis,
Thanks for the heads-up on that one. I'll check out if Fender have decided 
to continue the line, or make some kind of a substitute.

>  Lately I have been looking for a used one of those.
Good idea.

>  I played one a little it was
>really cool.
That's kind of what I was hoping. I just kind of want to be able to play 
some more lead line licks, little chords, stuff like that, but down there 
in an 'oomphy register'.

>   Not exactly like a modern six string though because
>they are designed to have the low string be a an E rather than a low
>B like on the modern ones.  Have the bottom four strings of a 5
>string bass set on my Fender Jazz bass.  Unfortunately it does not
>really handle the low B as well as a "real" 5 string bass.

Question, though. This intrigues me. Did you at times find that you wished 
you could go lower and growly like 'a real bass'; and ... when you were 
playing higher, did you wish that you could 'cut through a bit more' like a 
'real guitar'. What I'm saying is, was it instinctive to play? Did you find 
it real easy to fall into 'the way' of the baritone, its range, its 
possibilities and such like, or did you find yourself going through a more 
or less extended kind of period of readjustment to what you could do. How 
long did it take before you kind of weren't conscious any more of the fact 
that you had a very different kind of an animal in your hands? Does that 
make sense? Just curious?

Kool Musick
Keep Musick Kool


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