Look Out Below!

There were several concurrent revelations some years back that inspired me to look deeper into this frequency relationships and such. There were two books, “The Cosmic Octave” by Hans Cousteau and “Nada Brahma” by J.E. Berendt. Around the same time of reading these...

Fun With Octaves

I sit here at campsite 17 in an undisclosed location in northern Minnesota, listening to the August screams of children treating the national forest campground as if it’s a Wisconsin Dells water park. Pity the mergansers, cedar waxwings, the confusing fall warblers,...

Aluminum double basses – want one?

Interested in a new aluminum double bass? Dave Gartland from midnightrockers.co.uk is making new ones. Here’s a link to the specific page on these new basses.

The IRIS Orchestra (photo)

Ahhh, Facebook… it certainly has an ability to bring back all sorts of fond memories. Here’s a photo in which someone tagged me recently. It’s of the IRIS Orchestra from the mid-2000’s. I’m on the right along with double bassist Scott...

Ira Gold joins Peabody Double Bass Faculty

Jeff Weisner (National Symphony double bassist and former Contrabass Conversations guest, and a regular contributor to doublebassblog.org) let me know that Ira Gold (also a National Symphony double bassist and former Contrabass Conversations guest) will be joining the...