Archive for October, 2010

Announcing Luthier Built — Connecting musicians and instrument makers

Yazan: Jason | 29 October 2010 | No Comments
Categories: bass

FYI–from Robert E. Newby of http://luthierbuilt.net: Luthier Built is my vision for making far more musicians aware — and appreciative — of the world’s independent makers and restorers of stringed musical instruments. This September, we began building a worldwide community of luthiers and others involved in lutherie. We are gathering at LuthierBuilt.net. We are authoring [...]

Pics from Berlin 2010 Bass Bash

Yazan: Jason | 28 October 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, photography

Here are pics from Jonas Lohse of the Bass 2010 event in Berlin earlier this year: http://picasaweb.google.com/jonas.lohse/Bass2010#

Music for young bassists

Yazan: Jason | 27 October 2010 | No Comments
Categories: bass

Some good tunes for younger bassists from the Kilkenny School of Music with MP3 play-along tracks: http://www.kilkennyschoolofmusic.net/doublebassmusic.htm

Bassiona Amorosa live

Yazan: Jason | 26 October 2010 | No Comments
Categories: bass videos

Bassiona Amorosa just appeared live at Carnegie Hall on the 22nd of this month–anybody get a chance to check it out? Here’s a clip of this group in action playing Monti’s Czardas with Maxim Vengerov:

Music major video

Yazan: Jason | 25 October 2010 | No Comments
Categories: education, humor, videos

After the positive reaction I’ve gotten from the Music Teacher and the Parent videos these past few weeks, I couldn’t resist re-blogging this one about music majors–cynical but all-too-true:

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