{"id":2170,"date":"2021-05-26T09:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T09:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2022-12-18T12:18:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T12:18:28","slug":"my-new-double-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2170","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: My new double bass!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BH400_004-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2172\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BH400_004-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BH400_004-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BH400_004-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BH400_004-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BH400_004-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday I drove up to Leeds and bought myself a beautiful shiny Boosey &amp; Hawkes 400 series 3\/4 double bass. The drive, three hours each way, and fuel cost, of about \u00a350, were well worth the effort and expense. I&#8217;m absolutely delighted with this gorgeous looking and sounding instrument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On getting home, after taking Chester for his daily constitutional in the back garden, I immediately set about getting intimate with this curvaceous dusky maiden. Woefully out of tune out of the bag, thanks to an handy iPhone app I was able to swiftly get her singing much more melodiously\/accurately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To my great delight, some of the licks and riffs I used to play started coming back to me, so I made a little video. Mostly excited chatter, with a good dose of itchy nose fiddling and talking to Chester, who&#8217;s off camera mewing plaintively (wants to get outside again). Showing my ineptitude publicly like this is, perhaps, rather fool hardy. But hey&#8230; who cares!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bdHg3Bdn2cQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Why my iPhone wants to film video in a misty soft-focus &#8211; and I&#8217;ve cleaned the lens numerous times &#8211; I really don&#8217;t know. Photos come out perfectly clear and sharp. Weird! I&#8217;m thinking of naming my bass, with Brigitte and Fran as top contenders. Mind you, Valerie, or Leonie, for Valerie Leon also appeal. Mind you, I absolutely hate that total musical non-entity of a track <em>Valerie<\/em>, by Amy Greenhouse, so that&#8217;s out, methinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fran is for Fran Jeffries, and, based on sheer sexiness, is my favourite. But Brigitte sounds as cool and sexy as the bass looks. Hmmm&#8230; bit of a poser, eh!? Or should I say conundrum (or even Conan-drum?)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Brigit_Fran_Val-1024x440.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2174\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Brigit_Fran_Val-1024x440.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Brigit_Fran_Val-300x129.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Brigit_Fran_Val-768x330.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Brigit_Fran_Val-1536x660.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Brigit_Fran_Val.jpg 1701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">So, should it be Brigitte (left), Fran (centre), or Val\/Valerie\/Leonie (right)?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And sticking with the utter sexiness of this bass. The back is very feminine. Put me in mind of Ingre&#8217;s Bain Turc. But then, when I see the painting, I think the bass is actually sexier. The painting, by comparison, is less subtle or sophisticated, more harem as meat-market!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"552\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Ingres_BainTurc-vs_BullFiddle-1024x552.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2175\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Ingres_BainTurc-vs_BullFiddle-1024x552.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Ingres_BainTurc-vs_BullFiddle-300x162.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Ingres_BainTurc-vs_BullFiddle-768x414.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Ingres_BainTurc-vs_BullFiddle.jpg 1209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I drove up to Leeds and bought myself a beautiful shiny Boosey &amp; Hawkes 400 series 3\/4 double bass. The drive, three hours each way, and fuel cost, of about \u00a350, were well worth the effort and expense. I&#8217;m absolutely delighted with this gorgeous looking and sounding instrument. On getting home, after taking Chester &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2170\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: My new double bass!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-z0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7654,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/7654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}