Memorable quotes in double bass history
“…when their derision became too much to bear, I dispatched one of them with my bow and boggled the others with my technical proficiency.”
-Giovanni Bottesini, Parma, 1877
Courtesy of the International Bottesini Society, keeper of the flame for the great mustachioed one.
(…and if you believe that one, I’ve got a bridge for sale right here in Evanston!)
30 August 2010, 7:06 am
It’s a shame that non bass players really do not get that bass is the most difficult instrument…bass players can’t just shift once and stay in that position for 25 measures…Bass players are always shifting…making it the hardest.