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Mandobass. The Mandobass is the largest (and least common) member of the mandolin family, sometimes used as the bass instrument in mandolin orchestras. It is so large that players usually hold it like a double bass —upright and supported on an endpin that rests on the floor. The neck-scale length on a full-size mando-bass is similar to that ...
The Yamaha DX7 is a synthesizer manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1989. It was the first successful digital synthesizer and is one of the best-selling synthesizers in history, selling more than 200,000 units. In the early 1980s, the synthesizer market was dominated by analog synthesizers. FM synthesis, a means of generating ...
Since Music Man was purchased by Ernie Ball Inc. in 1984, many significant introductions have been made into the StingRay range, with double Humbucking pickups being introduced in the early 2000's and has become a popular choice today. A 5 string variant of the StingRay has become common in modern times, in some spaces even outselling the ...
96-button Stradella bass layout on an accordion. C is in the middle of the root note row. The Stradella Bass System (sometimes called standard bass) is a buttonboard layout equipped on the bass side of many accordions, which uses columns of buttons arranged in a circle of fifths; this places the principal major chords of a key (I, IV and V) in three adjacent columns.
Ex. 1 is a short figured bass followed by one possible realization, by the composer Thomas Mace.. Execution. The realizer, while usually following the harmonic scheme indicated in the figuring, has a choice on such matters as rhythmic effect, chordal spacing, ornamentation, arpeggiation, imitation and counterpoint, limited only by sound judgement and good taste, and adherence to the genre's ...
M.V. Pedulla. Pedulla was an American manufacturer of electric bass guitars from near Boston, Massachusetts. The catalog included different series of bass guitars: the Rapture (modern Fender bass clones, 4 and 5 strings), the Thunderbass, the Nuance and the Thunderbolt, respectively neck-through and bolt-on modern bass, and the MVP and Buzz ...
Youth also played bass on the Bollock Brothers' discomix 12", "The Slow Removal of Vincent van Gogh's Left Ear". Jimmy Lydon, brother of Sex Pistols John Lydon, was a member of the band. In 1989, Youth and Alex Paterson started the WAU! Mr. Modo label.
Jazz bass is the use of the double bass or electric bass guitar to improvise accompaniment ("comping") basslines and solos in a jazz or jazz fusion style. Players began using the double bass in jazz in the 1890s to supply the low-pitched walking basslines that outlined the chord progressions of the songs. From the 1920s and 1930s Swing and big ...