Boudewijn Olthof

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Band: Sakintek

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Groningen / Netherlands

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Thank you Arni for all the work you have been doing to get this community going. It took a long road to play my own LH-bass. Therefore, I am pleased to have this opportunity to introduce myself.

Kind regards,

Boudewijn Olthof.


As a child I was always attracted to simple, up-tempo music and strong beats. That never changed. House music (minimal/progressive), Roland 303 and reggae, I still love it. About 20 years ago, I fell in love with African percussion (djembee and bass drums), still playing in a band.

About seven years ago, a good friend of mine and an excellent bass player, Mark Bubbermans, was fed up with me tapping on his bass guitars. He forced me to hold a bass guitar the proper way. “No, no, I have to hold it the other way around•. From the first touch of probably the E-string, I was lost. Mark gave me an acoustic bass (Vester) which I could keep as long as I played it. A few months later, I immigrated to Senegal.

I can tell you it’s a bit weird to fly to another continent with a huge instrument you are not even capable of playing. Love makes blind. So I managed to play a bass guitar upside down for seven years with a technical development close to zero. Besides being incredibly stubborn, two major advantages blocked my development. I could take any bass guitar and I like the low E/A-strings which are easy accessible upside down.

But …

Times change. U meet people who can actually play. U get a girlfriend who plays cello and recently started guitar classes. Who likes to buy instruments and starts to show pictures of LH basses. In the meantime I was looking for bass tabs to support songs like ‘bad moon rising’ or ’horse with no name’. I noticed these bass tabs are not that difficult or can be simplified ;-)

With the mental help of my girlfriend I got a beautiful bass (thanks to Leander Grooten) and I am learning and I am happy.

Electrical. Brand: Vintage. Color: sunburst.

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