Bill, no attempt to use/add pedals yet. The two jobs I use this set-up on are light jazz, where you use left-handed bass exclusively. That's why, with this set-up, the next step would be to either add a bass or a guitar to fill out the chords.

I'm the first to admit that this format is a hard sell. Luckily, I'm part of the old establishment and I can pretty much call the shots....at least at society kind of jobs. I can sell the "coolness" of walking left hand and that sparse style at civic events. It wouldn't work at dances, etc. Then, I add both a bass and guitar or, more often, switch off on guitar and piano.

I'm lucky to have survived as long as I have, and to have access to the kinds of jobs that give me the freedom to do what I like.

Another source of enjoyable jobs is on classical guitar...no other instruments...no vocals, just jazz standards played by working up arrangements that contain bass lines, chords and melodies.

Now, that, I really like.

Surprise, Donny, I'm not in the market for a Hammond arranger.


Russ