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August 28, 2007
MyBass
Unlike those who got up early (or stayed up) to photograph the lunar eclipse, I could not wake at all during it, nor for a while afterward, though my sleep was restless and my dreams disjointed. This has happened before.
Speaking of dreams, I just discovered, via MySpace, the world of subbasses. What? As I rashly wrote to one of the guys out there in space, I had a dream a long time ago that I was playing a 9-string bass. It was completely absurd. The strings kept going lower, tuned in fourths below the then not-so-traditional 5-string: F#-C#-G#, etc. Lower than the lowest 'A' on a standard piano. Hell, lower than the lowest note on a Boesendoerfer.
Who knew that people did this for real? 8, 9, 10, and even 12 strings grace the hyperwide necks on these beasts. One guy boasts that his lowest string, tuned to 'B', vibrates at 15.4Hz. (If you can hear that as a defined pitch I'll bow to you.) Give me that instrument, and the right sound reproduction system, and I think anyone in the vicinity will see and know God.
Guitar Blogging | By joe lance | 10:51 PM