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I tried playing a 5 string bass on a few occasions

my left hand cramps trying

is that a 24 string bass?

nice

More like 8 Triplet strings

24 strings sounds cooler though

Yeahh I'm useless at guitar, I can play the harmonica fairly competently, but it's not a 'cool' instrument

The one im making should be easy to play. All you need to do is put pressure on the strings for both of them. They should sound like this

says who? the harmonica is pretty cool but most of peoples experience of them is your drunk uncle buying one from amazon and thinking he's a savant

Well yeah, the double-string bass is also often referred as "8 string"

https://youtu.be/8Ld7cFTm4X8

Even though you play it like a normal 4-string

My grandad plays better than me and he's fucken 86 hahah

You just have an option to vary pressure to make the second string reverb differently

https://youtu.be/6yzF5SY7WJg

Got a good set o lungs on him

What I do like about harmonicas is they're cheap, portable and ready to go straight away

i am once again not asking

yeah they're a convinient instrument

i'm also a fan of kalimbas for that, although the bigger ones are also amazing

I do own a chromonica from like the 50s but it needs some cleaning

you cant casually whip out an accordian from your backpack

A irish lyre is small enough for a backpack

i wanted to get an OP-1 for a long time tbh cause its like almost everything you need to make music but pretty small and well designed

Has a lil slide, so you can switch between octaves

My grandad had an engraved harmonica . But my ma sold it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2AIh_N3k5Q&feature=youtu.be

Which is pretty neat, can't bend notes on these though

Bending notes is fun

yeah bending on any instrument is really satisfying

My grandpa had 3 harmonicas

But he was also an alcoholic

Mother fucker

Based, mine was too, but he just stopped drinking when me and my sister were born

they do give off the "token instrument" of alcoholics vibe

cool sound though

Mine sold pretty much every cool item that I could inherit for vodka