March 28, 2008 – Jason Heath's Double Bass Blog

FriendFeed and how I peruse the Internet

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...

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

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...

Harry Brus tears it up on the electric bass

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