{"id":2146,"date":"2013-12-30T14:54:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T14:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2014-01-27T13:23:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T13:23:20","slug":"believe-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/?p=2146","title":{"rendered":"Believe it or not!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo5wb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2169\" title=\"photo5wb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo5wb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"441\" \/><\/a>Believe it or not, this exquisitely crafted instrument (which I\u00a0made myself!) is what I began learning to play bass on.\u00a0 I found it in my Mum\u2019s loft over Christmas \u2014 I thought it had disappeared years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Note that it\u00a0has an eleven-fret octave instead of twelve \u2014 which means that I was probably playing in some kind of Indian tuning \u2014 particularly as the frets were positioned more or less at random.\u00a0 Even so, I learnt <em>Green Onions<\/em> and\u00a0many other riffs on it.<\/p>\n<p>The electrics are lost \u2014 the pick-ups were the voice coils from telephones and the fact that several phone kiosk handsets were vandalized\u00a0in the streets near\u00a0our house at the time the bass was made\u00a0was pure coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, this exquisitely crafted instrument (which I\u00a0made myself!) is what I began learning to play bass on.\u00a0 I found it in my Mum\u2019s loft over Christmas \u2014 I thought it had disappeared years ago. Note that it\u00a0has an eleven-fret octave instead of twelve \u2014 which means that I was probably playing in some kind of Indian tuning \u2014 particularly as the frets were positioned more or less at random.\u00a0 Even so, I learnt Green Onions and\u00a0many other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/?p=2146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[20,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}