Dburgess

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- Mailer Diablo 09:50, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Bass guitar

What people choose to call a bass guitar is turning out to be a minefield, your etymology section helps. I am now wondering how true the sentence "The instrument is evolved from —and inspired by—the double bass …" is; as I see it the instrument may have been inspired by the double bass in that the intention of the manufacturers was to create an amplified bass instrument, but it evolved primarily from the guitar. Any thoughts?

Paul Tracy_|\talk

And a big fat LOL on the "short scale piccolo bass" front! Paul Tracy_|\talk