On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 20:20 +0100, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Paul C. Bryan <em...@pbryan.net> wrote: > > If a generic bass instrument were to be specified, Double Bass could move up > > to the place of Bass in the current bowed instrument hierarchy. > > Is Double Bass the same as Bass in the stringy orchestral sense? I've > never seen one of those basses, so I don't really know.
Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bass > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Calvin Walton <calvin.wal...@gmail.com> > > Reply-to: MusicBrainz Style Discussion > > <musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org> > > To: MusicBrainz Style Discussion <musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org> > > Subject: Re: [mb-style] "Bass" vs. "Bass Guitar": generic bass? > > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:45:12 -0500 > > > > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 23:47 +0100, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: > >> We currently have close to 12k "performed bass" ARs on MB, vs. close > >> to 9k "performed bass guitar" ARs. Under the current placement of > >> "bass" as bowed string instrument, this is almost surely utter BS - if > >> at least half of those bass ARs are not actually bass guitars, I'll > >> eat my own non-existent hat. > > > > I’m afraid that I’m guilty of this in a few places myself, mostly > > because pretty much everyone does call Bass Guitar just “Bass” > > nowadays... While some of them might be somewhat obvious, I suppose, > > other times I'm just not sure. > > > >> It is quite common for the bass guitar credit to be "bass" on the > >> liners and sleeves, and while I think we should not follow the liner > >> as if it was word of God, I reckon it is probably not a good idea that > >> following the liners gives us a *wrong* credit. So I'd say we need > >> some kind of "generic" bass that can be used when the kind of bass > >> we're dealing with is not specified. > > > > Yeah, but the real question is how exactly would this fit into the > > instrument hierarchy? Moving the (non-guitar) Bass entry out from under > > the bowed string instruments kind of breaks up the families of related > > instruments, even as it brings together the similarly named instruments. > > > >> I know some people will argue it is enough to listen to the music to > >> know if we're dealing with one or the other. While it is mostly true, > >> it is not always possible, and guessing by the style of the music is > >> not safe (I've seen enough rock bands with violins and cellos not to > >> dare). > > > > And of course there’s occasionally cases where you don’t have the album > > to listen to and you’re just using second-hand information off the > > Internet. > > > >> Opinions? Ideas? Insults? > > > > I like the idea, but I really have no clue how this would fit into the > > instrument tree. Anyone else? > > > > -- > > kepstin > > Calvin Walton <calvin.wal...@gmail.com> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style > > > > >
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