chris hardy from the Gibsonville band "3 feet up" tells the news: "i put the acoustic guitar away because i could no longer deny the fact that i'm a bass player! now, just bass guitar & drums are just not enough to do the gig, so i'm playing a thing called a piccolo bass guitar. it's just a bass guitar with skinny strings on it tuned like the lowest 4 strings on a guitar. now i can use my fingers instead of that cumbersome pick! so now it's like playing my ol' bass but i can do chords and leads and fun stuff and it feels comfortable to me! problem solved!"

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