Re: electric violins and string basses

[Marvin <physchem...>]

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To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: electric violins and string basses


> 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
>
I heard a jazz group a year or two ago, in which the bass part was played on
an electric cello.  It is smaller than an electric bass, and filled in
nicely.  Perhaps it was tuned lower than normal.  Anyway, it is worth
checking out in a musical instrument store.



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