Bass – Home for Wayward Musical Instruments

March 13, 2022July 25, 2024admin

This instrument is not supposed to exist. In all my research about Mandobasses the only mention of a mandobass crafted…

January 25, 2020January 4, 2025admin

I’m thankfully late to the Uke craze, but after hearing one of these played in a mandolin orchestra, and having…

June 4, 2017September 23, 2023admin

Meet “Mando” Calrissian (or the Landobass). A sexy, smooth operator from the 30s that takes the brute force of…

September 30, 2016January 5, 2025admin

So back in the 90s I was intensely following the Boston funk band, Chucklehead, amazed by the low-thumping prowess of both…

September 20, 2016September 23, 2023admin

This is number #2 of these. The first I used during the revival of Bean in the early 2000s when…

August 30, 2016September 23, 2023admin

This is “Vader”. He’s big, all black, and mean. It is also very much the crown jewel of my collection…

January 22, 2000January 5, 2025admin

When I converted from guitar over to bass in my band Bean, I wanted to preserve the acoustic sound that…

January 22, 2000January 5, 2025admin

During the time when I was studying under Mick Demopolous of Chucklehead trying to learn the mechanics of slap bass…

January 22, 1995January 5, 2025admin

So was starting to get a little more serious about playing bass, and while I had that brown bass I…