Who thinks a Six String Bass looks like a Battleship...

Do you think a 6 string bass looks like a battleship?

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Ship # 1 is the Bismark.
The Terpitz had either an AA gun or a fire control thingy on top of the B turret
and some extra stuff up at the top of the forward superstructure.

Ship # 6 Is the Hood.
The Hood was the first of the Admiral class Battlecruisers, (Hood, Anson, Howe and Rodney),
all named after famous Admirals. The other 3 were never built because the materials were
diverted to the construction of what had become higher priority vessels.
 
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Good eye Cap'n... you're right on. Bismarck, Fuso, Repulse, Derflinger, Mississippi, Hood, Admiral Golovko (not technically a battleship, but packing much more than the punch of one) and the really antique pre-dreadnought might be the Maine, but there aren't very many pictures of her, so you're right to say it might be one of her sister ships.

I'm always amazed at those tall towers on ships like this. Only Bismarck and Admiral Golovko had any radar... the rest were
observation towers for guys with optical range finding equipment. Dunno how much arc would have been described by those
tower tops when the ship rolled, but I'll bet it was a lot of motion. I think Mississippi has the tallest towers.

Fuso stands out as the most outrageous construction: Pictures of her
make you wonder what they were thinking. When newly built, Fuso looked more like Derflinger, with regular tripod masts and twin
funnels. The Japanese rebuilt her in the twenties maybe, and piled platform on top of platform for reasons of their own. They changed her from coal burning to oil, and trunked all her fire rooms into the single funnel and removed the other one (which had also made life difficult for the unfortunate guys on duty up in the foremast... fumes and heat going straight up probably fried them and choked them at the same time). *shrugs I'll bet it was hard to report on the fall of shot when you were breathing funnel gasses.

Extravagant warships, huge, and hugely expensive. The vessels to project National Policy. Expensive to build, expensive to maintain and expensive to operate. A friend told me about being on a civilian cruise ship off the Azores (Islands) and seeing an Aircraft Carrier
come over the horizon doing nearly thirty knots... big bow wave, spray flying everywhere, and a couple of frigates keeping her company.
The captain of the cruise ship called everyone's attention to the little fleet, and said it was the King of Spain out having some fun. He was probably up on the bridge of the Carrier laughing his ass off and enjoying the ride. "Yeah, I'm the King... full speed ahead!"

Elaborate, over the top... just like a six string bass eh?
 
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So that flattop ought to become an excellent concert venue then!
A place to play for a couple thousand people, and a monstrous reverb sound
from the empty hanger deck... Perfect for six string bass lines...
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maybe not! That instrument is a lot more compact and guitar-like...
but it doesn't get the deep tones that players of six string basses are after, does it?
Bass VI is more like a baritone guitar as far as I know. I've never played one.
 
Col Mustard said:
maybe not! That instrument is a lot more compact and guitar-like...
but it doesn't get the deep tones that players of six string basses are after, does it?
Bass VI is more like a baritone guitar as far as I know. I've never played one.
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I guess because I am a very basic bass player, I probably wouldn't know how to use the extra strings. I played a friends' 5 string a while back and just couldn't get used to it...
 
Col Mustard said:
maybe not! That instrument is a lot more compact and guitar-like...
but it doesn't get the deep tones that players of six string basses are after, does it?
Bass VI is more like a baritone guitar as far as I know. I've never played one.
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Bass VI and its relatives are short scale basses with 2 additional trebel stings - B and E. Tuned like a guitar but a full octave lower. With appropriate strings - Pyramid or LaBella Flatwounds, it really lives in both worlds: bass and guitar. And it is possible to develop playing styles combining that.

As You might remember my instrument from ESG, i'll show it when it'll have its time in chronology.

But now its time to put it in its case; i'll need in in today's rehearsal.
 
yuh, I'm a Cream fan, and I remember some of the time Jack Bruce played one,
which boggled my young mind at the time. But my young mind was also boggled by
what John Entwhistle was doing with four strings, and the echoes of what James Jameson
did with four strings on all those Motown hits still abides with me.

Times were so confusing then. *grins
So I do understand what can be done with the extra real estate on the fretboard, and I do
appreciate the sound of those deep deep tones coming from a six string bass or a pipe organ...

But I'm happy with four, and I seem to play it well and effectively, so I don't need to master
another obsession.

Let's call the Bass VI a heavy cruiser then...
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Oh yes: Newport News, New York, Prinz Eugen, Atago, Devonshire, Aoba
 
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