The Fairport Trio in the USA

[jude]

Go and look in the About this board bit

Read the thread 'Picture Please'

[Malcolm]

This has nothing to do with the Fairport Acoustic Trio, although I must ask, why are they plugged in if they are an acoustic band? anyway, I just come on on to ask, does anyone on here know how you put your picture and text on a post?

yours fairportilly, the kascade kid 

The difference is in playing acoustic instruments which are plugged in to a sound system to make them audible, as opposed to playing solid electric guitars like a Strat. If you played an acoustic guitar and/or sang in a club with no speaker system, only the first couple of rows would hear you, due to sound absorption by bodies and clothes.

[Adam]

......although Show of Hands do a couple of truely 'unplugged' songs and wander round the audience - fantastic (and very spooky)

[Paul]

This has nothing to do with the Fairport Acoustic Trio, although I must ask, why are they plugged in if they are an acoustic band? anyway, I just come on on to ask, does anyone on here know how you put your picture and text on a post?

yours fairportilly, the kascade kid 

The difference is in playing acoustic instruments which are plugged in to a sound system to make them audible, as opposed to playing solid electric guitars like a Strat. If you played an acoustic guitar and/or sang in a club with no speaker system, only the first couple of rows would hear you, due to sound absorption by bodies and clothes.

Unless you are a bass player who doesn't have the name Ashley Hutchings, in which case you carry on using your solid bodied instrument anyway. 

Paul

[Anna]

I dunno, Peggy used to have a lovely Crafter acoustic bass (in purple).

[Jim]

amplfiication apart, the reason most bass players prefer leccy is theres nowhere on acoustic basses to rest the thumb/fingers