Thank you so much for your kind words, Booli! I am very glad that you enjoyed the song, the sound of this instrument and even the story on my blog!
The instrument is, of course, the mighty
"Argentinian Bandersnatch Squillum" (!) that you first heard about in the thread about Long Necked Baritones
When I posted the video here I decided not to write the usual,
"I hope you enjoy it" because sometimes it affects people, making them sad or churning up their feelings. The tragedies of "boat people" lost at sea or abandoned by "people traffickers" were much in the news when I first performed it at a ukulele session. Two people cried and told me afterwards that it was because they related the song to the plight of those refugees fleeing from war. So I am never quite sure how it will be received.
In Kevin's mind's ear it is still a "heavy rock" song on electric guitar! He would have to play the guitar, or course. I have been playing bass guitar for about a year and we have just started working out the bass line for this this song. What is
brilliant is that we can use the bass guitar to reintroduce the lurking background impression of those "motor bike sound effects" that I mentioned on the blog - the ones that I discovered when I was playing around with the Tenor Banjo.
The guitar version will be in G rather than Ab so I will have to re-record this song in G, in order to use it to practice the bass line at home. Then I will add the bass line to the new recording. Such fun!!! So exciting!!! A labour of love is no labour at all