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P.S.:  There was one period of several months where I was determined to create my own “guitar bass” so I marched into the folk guitar store and demanded (pointing a water pistol at the clerk) that they give me the thickest bottom four strings they had.  When I got the strings home and took off the six strings from my guitar (coiling them up and putting them away in a drawer for the future when I might tire of my new bass arrangement), it was very difficult to get the thickest/deepest string threaded through the hole.  Also, as I was tightening it up, I began to fear that the sheer tension would crack the wood on my guitar. 

Anyway, it worked, and I was able to get very deep notes — not sure if I got actually down to one or two octaves below the lowest E of a normal guitar’s deepest string, but I was certainly swimming in the deep end more than I’ve ever done before.  One song I particularly liked to noodle around with, accompanying it on a record, was “Jitterbug Boy” by Tom Waits.

The only problem with that arrangement was that I couldn’t play normal guitar whenever I felt like it (I only own one guitar; and the de- and re-stringing process was way too elaborate to be done regularly).  I finally came back to normal after a few months; but it was interesting while it lasted.