The Bass Guitar Blog » Stirling http://bassguitarblog.com The Blog for Bass Players - Covering all the basses! Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:19:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 5 String Music Man Sterling Bass http://bassguitarblog.com/2008/11/5-string-music-man-sterling-bass/ http://bassguitarblog.com/2008/11/5-string-music-man-sterling-bass/#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:12:11 +0000 Benjamin http://bassguitarblog.com/?p=397 I’ve played a various Music Man basses, including the Stingray 5 (of which I’ve been an admirer for a long while) and the curiously named Bongo (strikingly modern looking), but I’ve never played a Stirling.

So, I was very pleased to find this video with Ed Friedland (aka The Bass Whisperer), which gives a nice walk through of the Ernie Ball made Music Man Sterling 5 string for Guitar World Magazine (via Guitar Warehouse).

It seems that the pickups are one of the big differences, but generally it is a very flexible bass, although it isn’t likely to be everyone’s first choice. Over to Ed…

 

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