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John Turner on Bass Retired 5-String Acoustic Bass Guitar and Classical Guitar |
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Do you ever play acoustic bass? Not an upright, I was never any good at that, although I have been looking seriously at purchasing a baryton or viola de gamba, both of which are basically cello-range five to seven string Renaissance instruments, the only difference being that a baryton usually has between 9 and 22 or so resonating strings. All I need to do is find one.
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I do have a 5-string Ovation acoustic bass guitar that is really nice. The low B holds up really well even when it is not plugged in - truly unplugged, so to speak. We all got acoustics at about the same time, with the plan being that we were going to try and strip down the arrangements of some of our pieces so that we could perform them all acoustically while we were recording, so that we wouldn't have to re-setup all of our gear all the time in the studio. That hasn't ended up happening yet, although we probably will try in the near future. I also have a classical that gets some use from time to time, a very nice Takamine. | |
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Do you like playing guitar? Yeah, it's fun, although I can't use a pick to save my life. My right-hand style of bass playing - Thumb, index, middle and ring fingers - is very conducive to classical guitar, and I would really like to gain some proficiency on the instrument in a purely traditional sense - perhaps being able to slip the odd Fernando Sor piece into our set somewhere - but that won't happen until I can really dedicate myself to that instrument, which won't be for a while. Still, I have a book of some Sor etudes that were interpreted by Segovia, and it makes for some mighty interesting reading. Who knows, maybe I'll do them on bass. Look out, Elliot Fisk! [laughs] |
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John
Turner on Bass
Retired 5-String Acoustic Bass
Guitar and Classical Guitar
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