Comments on: In search of the United States’ top double bass schools

By: jeremy

jeremy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:29:40 +0000

US News and World Report ranking? Won’t the bass schools with the obnoxiously large enrollments (i.e., IU) get more votes because there are more of them?

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:50:44 +0000

Absolutely–I’ll wait for a bit to get a good sampling from readers and then put out the results. If it proves useful, I’ll try to do this more it the future in a “deeper” way (not just the “best” but what people look for specifically, etc.)

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:48:49 +0000

Jason, will you post the results of this? I’m a high school senior who is majoring in double bass preformace so I’m curious to what the outcome will be!

By: knack

knack — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:14:54 +0000

Nice to meet you. I’m a Japanese man and plan to go to the US to study music and bass. So I’m very interested in this result. This idea must help a lot of people to decide which school they will apply!!

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:58:21 +0000

Right on–that’s the sort of thing I’m looking for.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:53:05 +0000

Very cool idea. I’m sure this will help guide serious high school bass students as they consider where to study. However, I’m not sure how accurate the results will turn out, considering that these are opinions coming from people, many of whom have no background with each school, biases, etc. Anyway…I think the results will turn out more along the lines of “which school has the best REPUTATION.”