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Archive for March, 2008

Great chat with Robert Meyer and Jack Budrow last week

Yazan: Jason | 31 March 2008 | No Comments
Categories: bass, bass luthiers, podcasting

We hope that you all enjoyed the second half of our interview with double bass luthier Barrie Kolstein this past weekend. If you missed it, you can check it out on Barrie’s Contrabass Conversations page. You can download the episode, play it while you’re surfing online (click ‘play in popup’ and keep browsing online while [...]

In search of double bass strings

Yazan: Jason | 30 March 2008 | No Comments
Categories: bass

Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist, former Contrabass Conversations guest, and faculty member at Northeastern Illinois University and the Chicago College of Performing Arts Greg Sarchet is helping to collect used strings for double bass master teacher and performer Miloslav Gajdos’ bass studio (see his videos on Contrabass Conversations here). Greg writes: Dear All- Czech double [...]

CBC 72: Barrie Kolstein interview 2

Yazan: Jason | 29 March 2008 | No Comments
Categories: bass, bass luthiers, Contrabass Conversations, podcasting, student resources

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We’re wrapping up our chat with Barrie Kolstein this week on the Contrabass Conversations show. We began this interview on episode 70 of the program, and in it we discussed Barrie’s father Samuel Kolstein and how he got into the bow making business, the progression into the bass making business, and the development of the [...]

FriendFeed and how I peruse the Internet

Yazan: Jason | 28 March 2008 | No Comments
Categories: blogging, technology

I’m definitely addicted to Twitter (you can find me at twitter.com/jasonheath).  I use it all the time and have been doing so daily for the past year.  There’s something about the simplicity of it (140 characters, that’s all you get) that appeals to me, forcing be to be pithy and focused, which is a good [...]

Hungarians bury a double bass to repent for their sins against the instrument

Yazan: Jason | 28 March 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, bass humor

Now this is a great piece of bass trivia!  Patty from oboeinsight recently posted this fascinating information on her blog:  (via My Wedding Favors Blog) Every year for the past 100 years, Hungarians in the city of Roma would bury a double bass to signal the end of the wedding season and also would confess [...]