I decided to throw caution to the wind tonight and take along the new bass to tonight’s concert band rehearsal. I did make a couple of fumbles because of the extra string but by and large it went pretty smoothly including the new piece we had to sight read. I’ll probably go back to my regular four string next week but that’s because I don’t need the notes below E for anything notated and I don’t need all the tonal options I get from two pickups and five control knobs (one pickup, volume and tone is enough for that context).

What I did observe was how light and comfortable the Ibanez bass was – that’s definitely a win for new one.