resurrection

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As a jazz addict and bassist with as much Mingus as Mahavishnu (you know...relatively speaking) and a luthier specializing in electric string instruments, I find it to be a let down that there are so many cats that put down electrics. Especially jazz bassists! I love the tone of an acoustic upright, but that doesn't make an electric upright a "Stick" or "Popsicle" as some cats say. It's strange that such a progressive form of art can have such close-minded double standards. Any thoughts?

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ahhhh...sorry bout that. I was responding to an old thread, but it didn't work. Basically I'm looking for reasons why electric instruments aren't more widely used/accepted in the jazz world.

[3pointdeli]

some prefer the tone of acoustic instruments. others are traditionalist snobs.

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Not so much people that try them and honestly don't like them...more like those that oppose them without even hearing/approaching them.
I find it to be similar to LincolnCenterSyndrome/Wyntonitis...devout Traditionalism/Purism.