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mbembe Frets: 1838
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Why is bass pronounced like bace and not bass which rhymes with lass?
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  • fretmeisterfretmeister Frets: 22257
    Because they are different things with different etymology. 
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  • tone1tone1 Frets: 4930
    I like mine with a squeeze of lemon..... B)
    http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/59137/tone1#latest
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 13312
    Bass is a contraction of the Italian basso.

    We Brits then deliberately mispronounce all foreign words to annoy the French.


    tone1 said:
    I like mine with a squeeze of lemon..... B)
    So did Robert Plant. 
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  • BorkBork Frets: 231
    Bass is pronounced like lass when it comes to fish and beer...

    [This space for rent]

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  • mbembe Frets: 1838
    Here, for the avoidance of all doubt...

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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 13312
    How low can you go?
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  • DLMDLM Frets: 2493
    The bace is a hybrid cello/bass instrument.

    Try clicking this link and see if it gives you a Bona:

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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 13312
    mbe said:
    Why is bass pronounced like bace and not bass which rhymes with lass?
    Otherwise, the name of the character in the film Quadraphenia played by Sting would have to be changed from Ace Face to Ass Face. :grin:
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  • merlinmerlin Frets: 6199
    edited November 2021
    Arse Farce. It is Sting after all
    feedback here
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    Sting in Quadrophenia is like one of those 'time traveller' photos where someone dressed in an apparently improbably modern style is in the background of a historic picture, where that style of dress shouldn't exist.

    A little bit of 1979 in what is otherwise a decent representation of 1964.

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  • hollywoodroxhollywoodrox Frets: 3605
    DLM said:
    The bace is a hybrid cello/bass instrument.

    Try clicking this link and see if it gives you a Bona:

    What an awesome dude, he really walks all over that fretboard. Unusual instrument all I could see was a cello like thing at first then you look at the headstock and it’s like a fender.thanks for sharing 
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