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07-22-2014, 06:55 PM
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Fender vi
Been playing bass on worship team this year off and on and my muse was "I wonder if a Fender VI would be cool or not" So I bought one for $349.99 on line no gig bag just a box. Showed up with some very minor finish damage and MF gave me a $50 credit which bought me a nice gig bag. Played it at Friday night practice and Sunday church where I play every week. What a blast. Go from traditional bass lines to chords to leads to fills to traditional bass with no effort and seamless stream of ideas. Who would have thought $349.99 could buy so much fun. I am blown away by this bass guitar. Check them out if you get the itch.
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07-22-2014, 10:33 PM
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Six string basses can be powerful tools in the right hands. One of our bassists had one, and having the ability play a B under an Em chord, or hit the low D when we played in D, made for some interesting harmonies on stage.
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07-23-2014, 09:43 AM
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TMK the prototypes went to Neil Levang and Buddy Merrill, Lawrence Welk's guitarists, and first appeared on his 1961 million-seller "Calcutta" - here's a clip from '64 with Neil on Bass VI: Gotta get a set of flatwounds on there for some real vintage mojo... 
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07-28-2014, 07:43 AM
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Pitner, timely post. I just bought a VI neck to put on a John Mayer strat with a warped neck. It is the 30 In. scale and I was originally going to convert it to a baritone but being a bassist, the VI appeals more to me and I know it will be very usable in my band environment and add some interesting things on a few songs. --Darwin
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08-02-2014, 08:57 AM
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Pitner, others have done this and it works great. It will be a while before I do this but I will let you know. I was originally planing on doing a baritone conversion but this appeals more to me. --Darwin
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#9
08-02-2014, 09:08 AM
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I played the Fender VI for music practice last night and took a solo break just fooling around. Really sounder pretty good and will likely take a solo in that song on Sunday. Amazingly fun to play and really has taught me to understand the lower freq's much better.
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