{"id":3091,"date":"2013-02-08T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2013-08-06T17:17:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T22:17:50","slug":"friday-work-whistle-is-your-bass-a-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/friday-work-whistle-is-your-bass-a-girl.html","title":{"rendered":"Friday Work Whistle: Is Your Bass A Girl?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bass guitar is a very physical instrument comprised of wood, steel and most of the time plastic (for switchgear, knobs and scratch plate among other things). On its own, the bass does absolutely nothing for you, and you do have to make it<\/em> do what you want. Said another way, nothing about a bass guitar is “automatic”. Sure, you can add\/remove\/modify things to the instrument to assist you with playing better, but ultimately, you’re the one who has to take the thing and make it actually do something.<\/p>\n

When you take a bass and make sounds with it, you are physically interacting with the instrument by way of nothing but hands to wood and steel; that’s organic; it’s a part of you at that point; that’s what makes it “alive”.<\/p>\n

True, the bass isn’t a living thing, but then again bass players treat them as such as evidenced by the fact so many of you give your bass a name as if it were a person.<\/p>\n

It is human nature to assign a name or gender to a thing we have affection for. That’s why the planet we’re on is sometimes called “Mother Earth”, and why all ships in the US Navy are referred to with the female gender of “she” or “her” and not “it”. Many car collectors also refer to their prized autos as she\/her as well for the same reason.<\/p>\n

(Side note: We also use female gender to represent good fortune, as in “lady luck.”)<\/p>\n

To refer to a bass as a girl is somewhat inaccurate; the more proper way for those who assign a name to their bass is that she’s a lady<\/em>, as in, “If you treat her like a lady, she’ll treat you right.”<\/p>\n

Does your bass have a name?<\/p>\n

(Image Credit: Ralph Burch<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bass guitar is a very physical instrument comprised of wood, steel and most of the time plastic (for switchgear, knobs and scratch plate among other things). On its own, the bass does absolutely nothing for you, and you do have to make it do what you want. Said another way, nothing about a bass … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}