Re: 4/5 string bass

["Charlie Milkey" <pilotcp@gmail.com>]

at this point you no longer look for an "F" strings, as much as you
just start asking the guitar store emplyee for a .017 guage
string...TI Strings makes single strings up to around there, and i
used to get mine at juststrings.com, but i don't believe i can find
them there any more...what you probably can do though is maybe drop a
line to juststrings or TI themselves and see if they can scare up a
.017 gauge string (btw, it is a bass string)...i believe conklin makes
his own strings, and he might be able to help too :)
alterations? i didn't have to change up my brice 6'er, and brice is a
cheaper 6 string bass, so i doubt any alterations are in order...


Good Luck

Charlie

On 5/8/06, Andreas Wetterberg <awetterberg@post.cybercity.dk> wrote:
> Charlie, I currently use my regularly tuned 6-string, and I'm quite
> clueless to these weird tunings- are the F strings readily available?
> hell, is it just a guitar-string? ;) Also, I'd need to have alterations
> made in a shop, right?
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> Andreas
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> Charlie Milkey wrote:
> > I tune my 6 string bass EADGCF...now that is a range...throw on an
> > octaver effect pedal, and you've got an incredible range! :)
> >
> > Charlie
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> > On 5/8/06, Steve Lawson <steve@steve-lawson.co.uk> wrote:
> >>  >>Then you've got Steve Swallow whose five string is E, A, D, G, and
> >> B and he plays with a pick.<<
> >>
> >> I'm pretty certain it's a high C on Steve's bass - still tuned in
> >> fourths.
> >>
> >> Of course, you could always get a 6 string bass - then you get the
> >> Low B and the High C, and have a great range for looping...
> >>
> >> Steve
> >> www.stevelawson.net - site
> >> www.stevelawson.net/store/ - shop
> >> http://steve.anthropiccollective.org - blog
> >> www.myspace.com/solobasstevelawson
> >>
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