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Archive for March, 2007

Harp with bass body as soundboard

Yazan: Jason | 31 March 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, photography

This is a very interesting photo that double bassist John Tuck forwarded to me. You can see that someone decided to take the body of a bass and use it as the soundboard for a harp. I’m not sure how well that works, but it sure looks cool. This photo is especially cool to me [...]

D’Bassists – Singapore Bass Quartet Blog

Yazan: Jason | 31 March 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, blogging

My blogging buddies from Singapore (Emily and PY) have started a site for their bass quartet called D’Bassists. They have a really slick slide show created by Slide, which is a great Web 2.0 application for making animated slide shows that can be incorporated into websites. Long-time Bass Blog readers (late 2005/early 2006) may remember [...]

Bleary-eyed hacking

Yazan: Jason | 31 March 2007 | No Comments
Categories: blogging

I am in the midst of a whole bunch of web projects right now, many of which I think readers will find very cool. I’ll elaborate a little more in the next few weeks, but I’ll have some very interesting things to announce in terms of resources for this site. I have spent the last [...]

Speedlinks for Friday, March 30, 2007

Yazan: Jason | 30 March 2007 | No Comments
Categories: blogging

I’ve got a crazy weekend, so I have to be brief today. If you’re in the area, come check out the Elgin Symphony play Sibelius 5 and the Elgar Cello Concerto. Daniel Hege is conducting and Alicia Weilerstein is the soloist for the Elgar. Some great comments are coming in for tracks on the Virtual [...]

Francois Rabbath Master Class – April 3, 2007 in Chicago, IL

Yazan: Jason | 29 March 2007 | 2 Comments
Categories: bass, music news, student resources

Double bass virtuoso Francois Rabbath will be holding a master class in Chicago on Tuesday, April 3 at 1 p.m. This class will be held in Buntrock Hall at Symphony Center. Symphony center is located at 220 S. Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. Click here for a map of the area and to get directions [...]