Beautiful pieces of wood always – ALWAYS – look better when they don’t have bits of cheap black plastic stuck on them

You’re right my virtual friend.
 
 

By the way, last januari Hein was signing his latest book in a book store in Amsterdam. Made me this cartoon in my copy.

The man on the left says:”Next!”

Apart from playing in my own bands I get asked as a substitute (or temporary worker as I call it) bass player every now and then. Two years ago I was asked to do a gig with a band named…   Read more»

@tv1010101 intriguing pieces of music!

@deej The standard scale for a bass is 34″ and for 35″ for 5 string basses. A 36″ is hardly ever used, some custom builders use a 36″ scale for 6 string basses. The purpose of a 35″ scale on…   Read more»

@deej It’s Göldo 3D bridge. I bought it on line from Music Store in Germany 
https://www.musicstore.de/nl_NL/EUR/Goeldo-3-D-bas-Bridge-4-String-Chrom-/art-GIT0025065-000

Great song Eddie!

You mean you spent some time over the border in England ??? Yes, to Newcastle for the ferry back to Holland. But we also had some sunshine in Scotland. The sunny end of the video was filmed in Ullappool where…   Read more»

Like the Acoustic Gentlemen @marcel Nice playing … Thank you, binary tv.We always enjoy playing together. We rehearse at Stijn’s attic and usually after a couple of songs he asks “want to have a vitamin b?”, goes downstairs to his…   Read more»

I wrote a couple of songs many years ago. I’m not a very good singer nor guitar player but I enjoy it. I recorded it at home, playing guitars, bass and drums (not simultaneously 😝). The mandolin you hear is…   Read more»

Tune I wrote in 1977

Very nice too, very different from your recent work though.

Let me know if it works?

It does. Very nice song and video!

@eddie6string can’t play your mp4.

At the end of december 2018 I formed another trio with two guitarists, one of them my friend Stijn, who is now the happy owner of the 12 string guitar I made. The trio is named “Akoestische Heeren”, in english…   Read more»

After our first lead singer and guitarist left the band they asked me to join them to form a trio. We recorded an EP and this clip is one of the songs on it. You see me play my fretless…   Read more»

Have you any idea what you started????

A band?

Last year we did a gig in january at at football club’s New Year party. In our second set we were joined by the singer of one of our guitarists other band. I’d never seen her before, no rehearsal but…   Read more»