About Me
I am an information systems quality expert with more than 30 years of international experience in Life Science industries, holding certifications in project management, auditing of Quality Management Systems and Computerized Systems Validation. I am a quality and compliance expert, a project and program management practitioner, a business analyst and consultant, a team leader, a coach, mentor, teacher and author.
Music
I have always loved music, with a musical taste that ranges from classical to classic rock. In 2018, I decided to learn how to create music, not just consume it. I bought a new MIM (Made in Mexico) Fender Precision bass and signed up for lessons at my local music school.
This started my journey down this rabbit hole. Shortly after buying my Fender, I picked up a used Epiphone Toby bass to take along on business trips, to practice in my hotel room in the evenings.
About 6 months in, I decided that I needed a 5-string bass as well. I bought a used ESP B155-DX, and shortly after that, I signed up for a workshop to build my own 5-string (from a kit). Mia Unika was completed in September 2019.
Around the end of 2019, I was thinking about what kind of instrument would be my "next" acquisitions. This list included an acoustic bass, a semi-hollow-body model, and a fanned-fret multiscale bass.
Within a week, I was offered a used Harley Benton acoustic bass, so my collection grew to 5 instruments, and I could check that off my wish list.
The multiscale basses from Dingwall fascinated me, so I started looking for fanned fret bass kits, but there are simply none to be found. The building of Mia Unika showed me that I can build a working instrument.
In September 2022, my bass journey had reached a point that I felt I was ready to own a Dingwall. I bought a Combustion 5, 3 pickup model, and had it autographed by Sheldon Dingwall at the Guitar Summit 2022.
As of today (February 2024), I currently own 9 basses:
- Fender Precision Bass - Made in Mexico, February 2018)
- Epiphone Toby Jazz - Made in Indonesia, Jan. 2014
- Harley Benton HBB40CENT - Made in China, 2006
- Yamaha TRBX604FM DRB - Made in Indonesia, 2021
- Sandberg Electra M4 - Made in Korea/Germany, 2019
- Dingwall Combustion 5 PF 3 Pickups Vintage Burst - Made in China/Canada - Autographed by Sheldon Dingwall
- Höfner HCT-500/7 Verythin Bass CT Sunburst - Made in China, 24 Aug. 2022
- Sterling by Music Man S.U.B. Ray 5 - Made in China, 2020?
The site multiscale.info started out as an Excel worksheet, where I calculated the fret positions for each string of a bass, with each string having its own scale length. I was playing with the values and wanted to have the ability to visualize the fretboard, to see how the different options affected the overall look. The Excel sheet morphed into a PERL script that generated SVG code that I could view in Google InkScape.
I decided to make this available to others, so the PERL code was rewritten in PHP and is now available as multiscale.info.
Mia Unika, September 2019
Contact
If you have any suggestions, corrections or would like to have your instrument featured on this site, feel free to contact me!
James Greene
79418 Schliengen, Germany
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