Acoustic bass uuitar

One of many joys of the Cafe Aman concert was that the line-up had an acoustic bass guitar, an instrument that is almost anonymous. Since I first met the ABG some 25 years ago, I come across it perhaps 6 or 7 times in the interim.

The acoustic bass guitar (also called ABG or acoustic bass) is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually somewhat larger than a steel-string acoustic guitar. Like the traditional electric bass guitar and the double bass, the acoustic bass guitar commonly has four strings, which are normally tuned E-A-D-G, an octave below the lowest four strings of the 6-string guitar, which is the same tuning pitch as an electric bass guitar.

Ashley Hutchings was the first player I came across in the mid-1980s when the Albion Band played for Leicester Haymarket's production of Lark Rise [the National Theatre version by Keuth Dewhurst], and All Things Considered, the support band for Lisa Knapp at Bracknell when I toured with Lisa over a year ago was the last.

So many thanks to Nick Cohen making a good evening great.