I've been learning to play bass guitar and as a result of GAS and really good sale prices at Musician's Friend, I picked up an Epiphone EB-1 Violin Bass. ($200+$90 for Hard shell case).It comes with a telescoping leg that screws into the endpin hole so I've been playing it as a stand-up.

Got to experimenting and dropped the E string to D.Yep dropped D bass. There are several songs we do at church in Dm that the bass really sounds good on when I hit that low D under everything else we're doing.

I've even been bowing it at times with my fiddle bow. What a lot of fun.

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