Commodore 64 Bass



Computer engineer Jeri Ellsworth built an electric bass into the body of a Commodore 64. Here she is with it at the ongoing Maker Faire in San Mateo, California. And yes, she's wearing roller skates.

Another Photo | Ellsworth's Twitter Feed | Maker Faire | Photo: Blake Maloof

If you don't like this pic, you are probably an idiot!

This looks like it took some time to build, and it's very creative!

Maybe she could gut a cheap keyboard and use the c64 keyboard as a synth as well.
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"She has a bass guitar built into a C64 case"

it needs to be clarified what's cool about that???

She has a bass guitar built into a C64 case

'nuff said....C64 was one of my favorite things as a kid.
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She has a bass guitar built into a C64 case. What's badass about that? Bass players just aren't badass. Consider Deacon, Redding and McCartney. Nice guys? Sure. Excellent musicians? Without a doubt. Badass? Not a bit of it.

If I want to sound cool do I tell people I play bass or guitar? Well actually neither, but if I did it would be guitar.
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BassDude I was just about to say that. The correct name for it is a bass guitar (not to be confused with a bassitar or indeed a guitbass) and the first such instrument postdates the guitar by many decades.

The bass guitar is much closer to a guitar than to a bass. Yes, I play both guitar and bas guitar and no I don't play standup bass. Too different and too difficult.
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That's an electric bass. Please don't diminish the bass world by calling it a guitar. The bass has been around a lot longer. A guitar should be called a piccolo bass.
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