The following post is from longtime blog friend Benjy: The following anecdote is an excerpt taken from the recent and excellent Mahler biography (Yale University Press 2011) written by Jens Malte Fischer, and translated into English by Stewart Spencer. I am sure that...
Bass blog contributor Benjy wrote a wonderful comment after viewing the Hans Sturm videos about the Rabbath technique that we’ve been posting here. Since comment can quickly disappear under the radar here (due to the daily avalanche of new content), I thought...
Regular bass blog contributor Benjy sent in this great photo from an old International Society of Bassists journal that he scanned, retouched, and framed. Benjy writes: I’m sure that it will amuse the bass community- we can actually count the number of strings...
Current Writing (2015 – present) I’ve gotten back into writing after a hiatus of a few years. Here are some of my most recent “meatier” posts. This gives you a taste of my writing style and the kind of projects that I’ll be doing in the...
