Talk:Acoustic bass guitar

message: I've put the caption on the Eston back to just Eston bass with no mention of the frets. It is actually fretless, I play it regularly and would notice. In time I will learn how to take a clearer photo and fix that too. Andrewa 21:00, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, sorry about that.  In the photo I thought it looked fretted, that's the problem with photographs I guess! --Morven 21:05, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: G'day, no probs. It does look fretted, both in the photo and live, but they are just markers. I've updated the photo description too, I'm sure you weren't the only one wondering. It's a pose-proof machine on stage, most people have no idea how hard I am working... but I'm a bit beyond worrying about that (mostly). Andrewa 21:11, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)

text: Hmmm, a lot of edits later, and I still haven't bought a better digital camera but I have now added a caption that I hope is as informative as the original but won't start arguments. Andrewa 02:41, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Eston bass/fretted or fretless?

message: Manufacturers: I think it's unnecessary to clutter the page with too many manufacturers. Therefore, I've made sure that each brand is only mentioned once on the page and also removed the statement Need to add more makers, but keeping to those who make or have made genuine ABGs not just semi-acoustic electric models. If more manufacturers are added, perhaps it should be on the basis of a unique contribution they have made to the development of ABGs. Basswulf 12:02, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Manufacturers

message: I know we've been through this before, but the refusal to admit that ABG is a normal and common name for these instruments is just plain wrong. It's not just Australian English either, I just did a Google search on ABG bass and got 211,000 hits, and all of the first page are on-topic and use the term ABG as either a synonym or (many of them) as the normal name for an acoustic bass guitar (which is my experience, see above).
So I really feel I have no choice but to restore the mention of ABG as at least a name in the intro. I realise we come from many different backgrounds. But if you want to argue the point, please cite some evidence (preferably, evidence that extends beyond your own particular musical circles). Andrewa 03:38, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ABG

message: One question: why didn't anyone try to place a dobro resonator within a bass guitar?
:Please sign your posts on talk pages. 
:I'd guess they did! But obviously if they did the results weren't anything that was seen as marketable.
:You'd probably need a bigger resonator than the dobro has to do justice to the lower notes. You need to move a lot more air to reproduce a bass note than a treble one, which is why until fairly recently top-of-the-line bass loudspeakers tended to be 15" or bigger. The specialised 10" and smaller bass loudspeakers now available have extremely long cone excursions which are probably not possible for a resonator. But either way, this is going to add to the cost.
:By my ears, the sucess of the two ABGs I own and play fairly regularly (a lovely Eston fretless from the early 80s, no pickup, and a cheap but functional fretted student model bought new in 2005 which works well acoustic and better using the built-in active pickup) is more due to the tone than the volume of the lowest notes. On the lowest notes you are getting very little of the fundamental, but the ear percieves it as a low note despite the fact that what your are hearing is almost (but not completely) all harmonics. So a resonator ABG might be possible using this technique. But there's a lot of art there as well as the engineering required to make it happen.   
:But I'm still guessing. It's an interesting idea. Andrewa 19:09, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: At the Galax Old Fiddlers Convention in 1998 I saw a bluegrass band who had a stand-up fretted bass that the guy had made himself, emblazoned with the name "Low-Bro" or something like that.  I took a photo of it.  It looked like a gigantic dobro.  Badagnani 19:27, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Horses for courses. Lately I've been using a fretted ABG with pickup probably more than any other bass, more often plugged in than not but it works both ways. Andrewa 02:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

text: OHO! But look at this and this! Andrewa 11:15, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Whoa dogies!  Badagnani 13:28, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding a resonator 

message: I have always liked the tonal range of acoustic basses, but I have a distinct memory of many (many) years ago (very early 80's) when I was learning I could not play bass (in any form or style) that there was a problem in building acoustic basses - and that was that the hollow bodies needed reinforcing to take the strain of the heavy guage strings, and that such reinforcing dampened the tone significantly. Such basses that were being built were both small bodied and short scaled to cope with these pressures. Was there some innovation is building style and /or technique that overcame this difficulty? If there was, should it not be mentioned in the text?LessHeard vanU 11:53, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Construction problems 

message: The article on the bajo sexto doesn't quite agree with the description here.  The information here looks more complete and probably more correct.  Can someone who knows this instrument go take a look?  Thanks -MrFizyx 07:22, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: Has anyone heard the term "dreadnought bass"?  Does it mean the same thing as ABG?  Boris B 06:26, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dreadnought Bass 

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