A few weeks ago, I embarked on yet another craigslist deal. As you may recall, months back I traded my Crate BV300 – a 300W all tube head. It was way more than I ever needed, especially with acoustic gigs. After trading that I was left with a Marshall 1960A 4x12 speaker cabinet. Sure, it sounds great and is a bit of an industry standard, but when did I ever use it and when was the last time I was looking at anything regarding the rock industry?
So it was time to give the cab a new home. I had tried many tactics before while trying to sell it on craigslist, but this time I posted it as a trade rather than for cash. And it worked.
There are now three new additions to my musical instrument family.
A cello that had been rescued from a school, a 1970 tele-star short-scale bass, and a 25 note chromatic wooden bell set. The plan is to be able to incorporate more instruments into my next album.
Note: the cello is missing a string because I may have been trying to tune the wrong string… A replacement is on its way and that will NOT happen again.
Perhaps I'll implement them into gigs as well? It’ll be a while before I can hack it as a cellist, but I can play bass and the bells wouldn’t be hard to do simple stuff with. I’ve got some piezo pickups that I can throw on the cello and the means to mic the bells. I’ll just have to check the response of my amp to see if it can go as low as a cello… Otherwise I’d be looking at a multiple amp setup …not that there’s anything wrong with that.
