From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018052911531985612-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I didn't find the slightly off-ness of my friends new freetless a problem.   
   > Shouldn't playing that in tune be no more of a problem than singing in   
   > tune, or playing a violin in tune ?   
      
   > Takes work, but it's certainly doable.   
      
   Around Christmastime, The Vince Guaraldi Trio jazzy versions of Christmas   
   songs, like from Charlie Brown Christmas, get played a lot, with lots of   
   upright viol style fretless acoustic bass solos...and I've noticed that that   
   off-pitch effect comes at the Attack portion of the envelope, and is quickly   
   compensated for, by ear of course, so it produces a sort of style - kind of   
   a slightly off key intonation followed by getting on pitch immediately,   
   which is probably why it's not so much considered a problem as it is a style   
   and even an identifying characteristic of the instrument.   
      
   Yeah, the commercial using the three bears story as a background.  It's   
   a pretty funny commercial.   
      
   I'm that way about the weather too...and I'm sure you are as well ;)   
      
   > Played a full band gig sunday.  I'm still recovering. Lot of work.  Oh,   
   > and we broke two of my Chauvet Led lights, the PAR56 ones. Broke meaning,   
   > cracked the clear plastic front lens.  Rough handling. The fronts are a   
   > thin plexiglass material, and certainly will break if you whack the them   
   > hard enough. I'll buy new fronts, and we need to think about a much better   
   > way of handling and transporting these.  Some of the other led fixtures,   
   > cheapo chinese ones, don't have these large front lens things, and so they   
   > handle rough treatment better. The Chauvets are better lights tho.   
      
   Jim   
      
   Maybe some kind of case or container to protect them.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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