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@BuckshotLaFunke ::: Exactly. Couldn't have said it better myself. ...although...I do love some of Ron Carter's "piccolo bass" work...
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haha, it's great to see Mr. Heath on cello! I see that if you handle the double bass, you handle the cello too!
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hahaha a cello!
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Ok, that's convincing. Thx!
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It's definitely a 'cello. It just has machine heads instead of pegs... I've seen a couple like that around, and my cello teachers husband (who is a bassist, and a luthier) replaces the pegs with machine heads on his 'cellos.
Basses (Being Viols) are also a completely different shape.
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No, there are other differences. But you can easily see what it is by looking at the mechanics. Just look at some pictures of celli and you'll see that the mechanics always stand sideways, wheras on a contrabass they look backwards. It's a question of the family to which the instrument belongs. So, I would insist, even against the word of Mr. Heath himself.
But hey, who cares? The interesting thing is what we hear. And what we hear is fantastic!!
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Jogi, so you could simply change the mechanics for tuning and then it's antoher instrument? Sorry, I just don't buy that. Please explain it further. Also Percy himself did call it a cello.
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phgp527 - you're so right. There's Ray Brown, NHOP, Pettiford, Vinnegar, Ron Carter, Chambers etc., but Percy Heath is my main man. He's the swinginest with the fat tone, always lagging behind and still in time.
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Concerning the instrument conversation: it's definitely a cello. In fact, it's a particular type of cello that Kay instruments manufactured in the 60's for Ray Brown. They marketed it as a "jazz cello", aimed mainly at bassists, with machine heads and the strings spaced slightly further apart, and intended to be tuned in fourths. In the 70's, long after most bassists had dropped the instrument, Percy got one from Ray (who apparently had a bunch in his garage) to play with the Heath Brothers.
BradleyMellen 2 years ago 6
Its probably a custom made cello with bass tuners, which are a lot easier to use than cellos tuners which keep unwinding
wohodude100 2 years ago 2