Now here is something new and different.
A new instrument. I have yet to buy an instrument for myself. Mostly on the account of being “kicked out” of music school for not having enough talent in primary school. Well, the desire to push keys transferred to a different kind of keyboard, which instead of noises produced system calls.
Now this is a direct result of visiting the Guitar Museum in Umeå, Sweden. Catching the guided tour by the owner, who went above and beyond to explain and show off the collection (specially since there were only two visitors there and some knowledge of rock and roll history was shown), kick-started this whole “something different” thing. If you have a chance, I cannot recommend it enough.
As you do, after such an experience, you find a music shop for a souvenir or two (beside the t-shirts from the museum itself). Long story short, there was this micro bass, on sale, which being cheaper than some lunches I had in Scandinavia, fall under the category “why not”.
Well, this opened up a convoluted rabbit hole of diving in to bass related music research.
What I got was a lovely Ibanez mikro bass model GSRM20B.
Flailing with the new toy, one potential improvement became obvious. The thing has a bit of a “neck dive”.
If nothing else, I am an engineer, so off to do some calculations.
The math comes to the torque, because of the position of the center of gravity, being about 2.3 times grater towards the front of the bass.
This can be improved.