I don't think I have ever said 'bass guitar' in my life!
Yet that is exactly how I first started out with playing in a band. We were 15-16y/o or something.
My school mate needed a bass player but I only had a guitar. It was a cheap department store model but it came with unusually thick flat wound strings (kind of what jazz players would use and yes my Dad bought it).
My school mate, blessed with a richer dad than me, had a Fender Twin reverb.
So down went those strings a whole octave and LOW and behold through the basic input channel of the Twin(bass max - treble min) it DID resemble something like a bass, thus a 'bass guitar'.
This was actually used in a performance that we had to do in a church(requirement so we could use the practice room) to accompany choir girls where obviously powerful bass tones were not on the agenda.
I seen double necks strung as bass and guitar individually, so they would also qualify.
These days I would have the funds for a Chapman Stick (10 string would do) but it would only be used for experiments and an addition to my guitar collection, which my wife strongly opposes.
...not that it would take up much space
...nah she would kill me: "Move out and live with your guitars" or something like that.
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