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Neil Gray
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Back to the original point...
It would be sweet if fender brought out a six string that we can all afford!
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JoEBaSS
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Joined: 21 Apr 2003
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Location: Deep South Texas
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yes it would.... i think they would have to work on the neck though... cuz' a lot of their 5 stringers have chunky necks
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Hands5
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| Captain_Obvious wrote: | No less than $1,200. Most likely more  . |
uh,try $6000.00 if you want the one that Ty Zamora has (Alien Ant Farm)  |
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confusedqueen
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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JoEBaSS
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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6,000......... that's nothing.
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confusedqueen
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| It would definitely be lovely if 6000 was nothing |
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Silly Willie
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| It is a baritone guitar. It's a longer scale neck than a guitar, but a little shorter than a bass. Same thing on the gauge of the strings, and it's tuned B to B (or C, i forget). It's what a 6 string Bass WOULD be tuned to, except it's a big. deep guitar. |
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gibson_thunder
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adamgordon
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Joined: 19 Aug 2005
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I think it is a bariton eguitar too. But it's called "bass". Strange thing 
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Lefty Bass
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Joined: 19 Jun 2007
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Lots of incorrect info in this old thread.
The original 6-string basses(Dano, Fender VI, Gibson EB-6, etc.) were tuned E-E, one octave below a guitar. So you have the four strings of a regular 4-string bass EADG, plus two higher BE. They had thinner strings(low E usually around .85) and 30" scale. They were used in recordings to double the stand-up bass, a technique known as tic-tac bass.
A baritone guitar is a different instrument, tuned either A-A or B-B. Usally 28" scale and much thinner strings, the two highest are usually unwound/plain. |
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Ankhanu
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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Plays in the bass register. Is a guitar. Seems like a "bass guitar" to me :P
And, if I'm not mistaken, is the first 6-string bass guitar manufactured.
(EDIT - no, it was a Dano.) |
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oogie boogie
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| Silly Willie wrote: | | It is a baritone guitar. It's a longer scale neck than a guitar, but a little shorter than a bass. Same thing on the gauge of the strings, and it's tuned B to B (or C, i forget). It's what a 6 string Bass WOULD be tuned to, except it's a big. deep guitar. |
Incorrect. A Baritone is tuned B-B an octave above a 6-string bass.
Some of you may be thinking of the Fender VI. That's rare bird indeed and it was Fender's response to the Dano 6, another tic-tac bass. Too thin sounding to do real bass work on.
Now... why would you want a 6-string Fender bass? Think about this for a second. What kind of gigs do you play on a 6-string? Let me tell you something: My workhorse these days is a 5. I've been gigging for a lot for years and in most auditions, as soon as I pull out my 6-string bass, there's a kind of silence as everyone exchanges a quick glance that say "Oh *Poop*... this guy's going to be soloing all *Holy Censor, Batman* night, and won't go a bar without a fill. Who invited the fusion wiz?" Seriously, that's what most non-bassists think. If it's a Jazz gig, you might be ok.
How many of you even know what to do with a 6-string bass? Do you know all of your chords and inversions even on a 5? Extended voicing solo skills?
Before getting all kinds of happy on 6-string basses, learn to effectively use a 5-string, without camping out on the B.
Frankly I think a Fender made 6 would suck. A 6-string p-bass? Too muddy. A 6-string Jazz? Other cats are already doing it way better. The closest they ever came to a cool 6-string was with the Heartfield, and that WAS a cool axe.
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