"15 string" bass... sort of.

littlethoughts

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TENNESSEE-15-STRING-BASS-GUITAR-/291159384763?nma=true&si=PtW5Y60Q2p%2F9%2BymJu1Dr8EmA9r0%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

This bass has 15 strings. It also only has 10 bridge saddles, with some slightly imaginative placing of strings that our forum favourite guitar producer would be proud of. 

The bassiest of the bass strings overhangs the fretboard.

Sold for £950...

impmann

Nine strings too many for a bass, IMHO. :-)

Paul_C

11 too many for me

impmann

You're right Paul - I can't count! Perhaps I should be a drummer...

randomhandclaps

Ideas like this frustrate me.  At times it's hard enough getting the bassist to play the right poxy note as it is, without complicating it further.

I would also imagine that the extra complexity of this instrument would take the average time from someone first starting to learn a bass to being gig ready from two weeks to nearer three.

Panama_Jack666

randomhandclaps said:

I would also imagine that the extra complexity of this instrument would take the average time from someone first starting to learn a bass to being gig ready from two weeks to nearer three.

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ThePrettyDamned

Panama_Jack666;268910" said:

randomhandclaps said:

I would also imagine that the extra complexity of this instrument would take the average time from someone first starting to learn a bass to being gig ready from two weeks to nearer three.





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+1, if there was a prize for hilarious comments...

xmrchi

Wow those strings look utterly ridiculous! I had a hard enough job with 6, 15 is just insane!