Sporting Life (Tea Chest Bass)

Lew Dite with his tea chest bass
The tea chest bass is an important instrument in skiffle music
Sporting Life is a Brownie McGee song that the Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group taught me to love

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Music

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• Lew
• Dite
• skiffle
• tea
• chest
• bass

[ItsMeCrofty]

Or at least explain what you've done?

[lewdite]

@ItsMeCrofty I have attached a bracket to the side. It is a bracket that has a spring-like clasp that I can just snap the broom handle into. The bracket is probably intended for garden tools etc.

[gfmgma]

Great voice, could spend the hole afternoon listening to this. You're very talented, nice job!

[lewdite]

@gfmgma Thank you for those kind words…

[Slimboyfat1979]

very informative...are they loud enough though to perform with other instruments?

[lewdite]

@Slimboyfat1979 With acoustic instruments… yes.

[lewdite]

@8000cheese Rope.

[cosycleaner]

Yep, made mine nearly 50 years ago too - happy days...

[KevinRexrod]

I,m sorry to say that this guy has got it all wrong when it comes to build a tea-chest bass. My very first bass was a tea-chest bass, and mine had a fixed neck with a fingerboard. The top op the box was reinforced to withstand the tension of the string, and i,ll tell you mine sounded much more like a real bass with an amazing sustain believe it or not and i didn,t need a glove to play it.

[MrZeroTerrorRide]

1:49 He's flipping me off!!! that Mothra Hugger!!!

[Theslavedrivers]

@VonBlade Well, its beyond me, put it that way.

[VonBlade]

@bobbystormont Wholly missing the point. Tea-Chest bass is much cheaper, and you can make one in a couple of minutes, which saves lugging a bass about. Plus you don't get the same sound out of a genuine bass

[ItsMeCrofty]

Hi, any chance you could show the other side of the box, where the broom handle clips on?

[bobbystormont]

I'm all for cost-cutting in the performance of music, but surely cheaper and easier these days to purchase a second-hand acoustic bass guitar!