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Wish me luck, I'm gonna need it!

Posted: March 26th, 2009, 9:00 pm
by pjmuck
Traded my Warwick Thumb BO straight up for this beauty. :D

It's a lefty Warr Artist 10 string tapping bass/guitar. If you're not familiar with them, they are along the lines of a Chapman Stick. Trey Gunn formerly of King Crimson plays one. I have no clue how to play it yet, LOL, but I've always wanted to learn to play a Stick, so I am determined. Truth be told, I think Chapman Sticks look cooler, but Warr is supposedly much better quality. They're typically set up with the bass side comprising 5 strings tuned in inverted 5ths and 5 strings of the guitar side in standard 4ths, though you can more or less set them up any way you want. Just playing around with it for a few hours today, I'm thinking about reversing the string arrangement to be straight 4ths bass side and inverted 4ths guitar side, with the guitar side closest to me (which is actually close to how the standard righty Warr is set up). So maybe I should have just got a righty and flipped it over. :? The righties actually look "more lefty", IMO, because all your knobs and switches are on the lower body side furthest away from your body like a standard lefty bass.

Re: Wish me luck, I'm gonna need it!

Posted: March 26th, 2009, 9:42 pm
by Rodent
yeowsa ... so you take two 'basses' to your next gig - the Warr and a 70's J-bass

yep, that ought to throw everybody off just a little

all the best,

R

Re: Wish me luck, I'm gonna need it!

Posted: March 27th, 2009, 6:01 am
by LefThanDed
Do you need a license to operate that thing?

Re: Wish me luck, I'm gonna need it!

Posted: March 27th, 2009, 7:03 am
by pjmuck
adgc wrote:Do you need a license to operate that thing?
:lol: No, but you need a hernia belt. It weighs at least 12 lbs.

Re: Wish me luck, I'm gonna need it!

Posted: March 28th, 2009, 10:48 pm
by AzWhoFan
way cool instrument pjmuck! good luck with the learning curve and the hernia surgury.

here's a clip that may inspire you to greatness ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7kIclA4yq4

Re: Wish me luck, I'm gonna need it!

Posted: March 29th, 2009, 1:15 pm
by pjmuck
AzWhoFan wrote:way cool instrument pjmuck! good luck with the learning curve and the hernia surgury.

here's a clip that may inspire you to greatness ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7kIclA4yq4
LOL. I wonder if I can become half as good as that guy before I die.

Re: Wish me luck, I'm gonna need it!

Posted: March 29th, 2009, 2:30 pm
by Jim_k
Good luck. The first time I saw one, Trey Gunn in the double trio King Crimson in the mid 90's, I had no idea what it was. Fantastic sound.