OFF/HW: double bass...who's on first? what's on second?

[Mark Edmonds]

Yes, obviously you can go micro-tonal with non-fretted string instruments
(most violinists do that by default!) but I was working on the assumption
that Dave's prime musical ideas machine is his guitar and I've never heard
of a fretless 6 string. As for fretless bass, the only instance I can think
of is Highrise - are there others? Anyway, the only point I wanted to make
was that Hawkwind's dominant musical foundation is not using sub semi-tones,
whatever you call that type of scale.

Mark

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> Behalf Of Chris Gibbs
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> Subject: Re: OFF/HW: double bass...who's on first? what's on second?

> What about violins, double basses etc that don't have frets... also
> fretless bass guitars.  You don't have to reinvent the guitar.
>
> A rare piece of music magik is hearing Yehudi Menuin play with Ravi
> Shanka
>
> I guess only Yehudi is (was) actually good enougth to make a violin
> sound like a sitar!
> If I remember right it was all the notes between the notes that made it
> sound so fantastic.
>
> Whilst basis of Hawks is blues they always go to other places so you get
> something unexpected.
>