Ooooooooohhhmmygaaaaaawd! Thparkleth!
Audit any spurious and unnecessary elderly relatives. What gifts have they sent you recently? Sell the curmudgeonly old buggers 
Buy a Bongo.
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Lol. That sounds familiar 
I’ve been calculating possibilities all day. OfferUp might get flooded with a bunch of my stuff this weekend.
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Oh my! Now I’m craving a root beer float, 
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Oh yes. You won the internets that day.
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I just like saying bongo.
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For the DAW/ITB crowd:
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I’m really glad there are so many bass body style choices to choose from. There’s something for every taste.
Personally, I don’t get the esthetic of the Bongo at all, but I’m happy it exists for others to enjoy. Party on.
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Same. I despise telecasters but I’m glad others like it. I don’t have to play one.
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Truth
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Seems like an awesome Strymon plug-in, bit too expensive for my liking. Also those “Apple” like marketing videos feels a bit cringe these days. Oh well, 10/10 for effort! 
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Bingo bango oingo bungo…unga bunga bunga
One of my favoritistest songs on the planet
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Flavor flav still wearing those clocks. 
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I’m GASing out really hard right now.
Found this beauty on reverb, and put it on my watch list (just in case I need some eye candy 
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Now the seller is even tempting me with a private offer… And I’m still broke and waiting for my first gear to arrive… It’s so bad, it’s not even funny anymore… 
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As expected new and purpose design by the leading engineering mind, the bongo is balanced and comfortable. After 5 minutes of playing you’d forget that you are playing a 2 octave bass. Some like Spector and Chapman don’t let you forget that.
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I trust your evaluation of the Bongo, @Al1885. There has to be something about it that balances its funky looks. And by that, I mean funky-looking to me.
The Bongo neck has 24 frets. Is that what you’re referring to as a 2 octave bass?
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I love my Tele basses. Can’t convince me otherwise. Nope
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I dig the looks of your Teles. Cool classic style vibe. But I can see how it might polarizing for those who prefer modern body styles.
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Yes 24 frets.
Don’t get me wrong the fugly looks does grow on you. All the the carve and lollipops bottom shape as well as deep wide horn really serves well. Mine is also the piezo model which makes it fun when I want to do a little acoustic sound.
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So… I was thinking the other day… I’ve got an H/H bass (my Schecter) and I’ve got a J/J bass (my Carvin-soon-to-be-Carmoth-Warvin), but I don’t have - and never have had - a straight P-bass with a single split-coil pickup. I started looking around just for fun, you know, getting ideas, maybe pricing, and I came across a deal I couldn’t take my eyes off. It goes against everything I’d set myself against recently: it was a Reverb sale, it was used, I wasn’t able to play it before I bought it. But given the pictures and the price, I couldn’t pass it up.
I received it today and I’m so glad I bought it. I haven’t dated it yet, but I’m pretty sure it’s somewhere in the area of 7 years old, and it is in… mint condition. I can’t find a single scratch on it, not even normal use wear on the pickguard. Seriously, it looks brand new, straight-from-the-factory. Keep in mind, these aren’t my pictures, they’re from the Reverb sale. And they do show some dust, but they are not apparent in real life:
Yeah, a Kiesel, I know. But I’m a fan and wow, what a bass. I think it’s a 2015 or 2016, I’ll know for sure when I get the build sheet back from Kiesel.
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