Ashbory Bass Forum

  • February 05, 2012, 04:15:59 AM
  • Welcome, Guest
Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Welcome to Large Sound 3.1 -- The forums! Let me know if you see anything odd or wrong. Thanks!   -Brock (frazier@largesound.com)

Author Topic: Did you give it a name?  (Read 3443 times)

Danko

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 5
    • View Profile
    • http://www.danko.batcave.net
Did you give it a name?
« on: May 13, 2004, 08:01:27 AM »
Hi,

Weird as I am, I belive if you don't give a nice name to your instrument you don't really love it. So, I called my Ash "Little one". Not very inventive but it really fits. :)

How about you?

Danko
Logged
Danko

Mike Yocum

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • Posts: 18
    • View Profile
Re: Did you give it a name?
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2004, 05:22:18 PM »
Well, I haven't given my Ashbory a name, however a few of the guys in the band call it "ukulele bass."  Not very flattering, I admit!
Logged
Mike

Brock

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 409
    • View Profile
    • http://www.LargeSound.com
Naming instruments
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2004, 04:12:30 PM »
The only instrument I've ever named is a Carlo Robelli Korean made 8 string bass (octave pairs) with a sparkle silver finish, and it's called simply "Sparkle".

Sparkle is a decent bass, but it hasn't seen much attention since I picked up that USA Hamer 8 string Chaparrel.

I thought the most loved instruments were supposed to get names, but my Martin solidbody bass guitar, the Ashborys, the G&Ls, all have no name. Just 'Sparkle'.


-Brock
Logged
A to the S to the H to the B - O - R - Y!

Sendermen

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • Posts: 25
    • View Profile
    • http://www2.hku.nl/~sander5/ashbory/
Name
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2004, 02:01:55 PM »
Well I call it "rubber bass"...

But a guitar player I play with calls it chair-leg-bass for some reason... :)
Logged

Danko

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 5
    • View Profile
    • http://www.danko.batcave.net
Re: Name
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2004, 10:51:36 AM »
Quote from: Sendermen
Well I call it "rubber bass"...

But a guitar player I play with calls it chair-leg-bass for some reason... :)


 :o

Hehe. Now that you mention it, it does look a bit like a antique furniture leg. :D  

On topic... I have names for all my basses. Ones that didn't get names in one year of ownership were sold or swapped for a more lovable instruments. So, my first bass is a Yamaha RBX200, and i call it "Nada" - it's a Croatian name and it means "Hope". :roll: Then there is "Mali - the Little one". And the new kid in town is the one I call "Sha-ka". It's a jazz bass copy with unknown origin.

I got Shaka few weeks ago - swapped for my neck-thru active Johnson pro series (had no name, so had to go). Here are some pics:
http://www.angelfire.com/folk/danko/shaka.htm

If anyone knows who made Sha-ka and where, please let me know.
 :oops: Thanks!

Danko
Logged
Danko

Zerozeddy

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • Posts: 77
    • View Profile
    • http://www.chalfontwindband.co.uk
Did you give it a name?
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2005, 07:44:28 AM »
My mate calls it my "Raspberry", ho ho.  :|
Logged
Oz
----------------------
(boing boing boing)

Alun

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 59
    • View Profile
    • http://www.alunvaughan.com
Did you give it a name?
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2005, 10:11:05 AM »
Quote from: Zerozeddy
My mate calls it my "Raspberry", ho ho.  :|


Don't worry, mine is now known as "The Radish" after sax player Alan Barnes referred to it as an "atomic radish".

Alun
Logged

Bassline

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 5
    • View Profile
Did you give it a name?
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2005, 04:32:16 AM »
I guess its the "rubber band bass" because that is what
everybody else says when thay see it.
Logged
Brother Bill

Xrix

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 112
    • View Profile
    • http://www.redcarpet.nl
Did you give it a name?
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2005, 06:23:25 PM »
I don't give any of my basses real names, I just refer to them with a short name, such as 'BTB' for my Ibanez BTB 405... or '4 string' for my Yamaha (my other electric basses are all fivers...)

One guitarist keeps calling my Ashbory the 'rubber bass'. Repeating to him only the strings are (silicon)rubber doesn't seem to help, so I might as well live with it  :P ...
I sometimes call it 'little one'...

Xrix.
Logged

thumper

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 9
    • View Profile
Did you give it a name?
« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2005, 02:36:21 AM »
i call my basses by the first letter or the first word liek i have Fender Jazz bass i call it "the J" i think i am gonna call it ashbory
Logged