The Care and Watering of a Bass
The boyfriend decided to learn the acoustic stand-up bass this year. He knows how to play the electric bass and keyboards but there was just something special about all that natural wood and organic sound.
Even though I played violin in a school orchestra program for five years, I had no idea that it was such an involved thing to take care of a bass. He has spent several weeks figuring out her (basses are usually female apparently) humidifying needs.
Now she has a room humidifier with a monitoring gauge and something that goes inside the f-holes called a dampit. He tells me that all that wood makes the instrument very sensitive. If too much fluctuation goes on, the neck could snap off or the body could crack. Every evening, he has to check on her before he goes to bed. It’s ok I suppose. He takes the same careful care with me.
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