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it looks rather fun to me... but of course.. that's just my opinion. whee

Ahh, see, this is technically not a bass. The company, Warr Guitars, is famous for their tapstyle instruments. You can play it like a bass/guitar, but it's main purpose is to tap.

Here's a video for the Chapman Stick, an instrument made specifically for tapping (Similar to the Warr that was posted, but you can ONLY tap on this due to a dampening system):

http://www.chapmanstick.com/method/greg_howard2.wmv

The strings will be in fourths, though I know people who'd rather downtune a lot. A person I know, who wants a bass tuned F#BEADG would put a Hipshot detuner on the F# so it can go to low E (One octave below a normal low E!). After a certain point, the human ear can't pick up the note itself (Low C#, anyone?), and only picks up overtones.

The highest strung bass that was ever referred to as a "bass," well...I'm not sure who made it but it's played by a guy named Gary...Chapman, and it has 11 strings. I know that 10 of them are tuned C#F#BEADGCFBb but I'm not sure of the 11th...

I have my 7 tuned BEADGCF but I know people who'd love F#BEADGC, or C#F#BEADG. eek

eek That video was sick! That must be one of the coolest things to watch live.

4 is enough neutral

Holy *massive amount of censorship going on* how in the Hell-O do you afford that sort of a thing. Even if it does produce a freakishly awesome triptastic sound, I still just can't imagine going anything above a five. Even then I'm still partial to 4, why the hell do you need anything more than that? Bass was made as a four string, why ruin the pure Godliness of it and add more strings to it? I mean you can still produce that nice funk, jazz, jive, rock, punk, indie, international, and whatever sound you want on the four string. And if you really want a deep sound, get a pair of drum sticks, find yourself a drum set, and just rock out! GOSH! Drums are like the master of that deep beat sound. Wow.... I just realized how off the topic I got, but I really don't care... Anyways the moral is, STICK TO THE FOUR STRING DAMMNIT! RIGHTEOUS!!!

Although, I do gotta say, that video was wicked awesome! I guess it wouldn't hurt to try to play something like that, but only if you seriously want to be a one-man band, ok, more like a two-man band to be exact. xd

Discalimer: Yes I am insane and have been off my meds for a few days and proabably need to be put in a straight jacket... God (Or waht ever you do or DON'T belive in,) help us all...

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haha at F# or lower, you'd need atleast an 18" or 21" cabinet, or it'd be pretty much inaudible. So not only do you have to pay mucho extra for the bass, plus the strings, you need a cab too. So basically a new rig haha