Re: electric violins and string basses

[MaxwellSt <MaxwellSt...>]

In a message dated 07/22/2000 5:18:25 PM Central Daylight Time, 
HNetsky (at) aol(dot)com writes:

<<  On "Old World Beat" it's a Zeta (Sp.?) which is kind 
 of rocky and sounds a bit like a saxophone.  >>

Zeta also makes a stand up bass which appears to possibly be more 
transportable than a double-bass (on airplanes, in particular).  Does anyone 
have any experience with this and can they describe the tone of this 
instrument (as Hankus did above) and how it compares with a double-bass which 
is amplified with a pickup?  Or does anyone have a better solution to the 
bass transport problem?  (On our last flight, the plane was delayed about 20 
minutes while they tried to figure out how to fit it into the seat which we 
had bought for it.)

Lori, chicago

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