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DBB.org regular contributor Benjy sent me a link to this very fun video featuring Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray pantomiming an argument with the first movement of Beethoven’s 5th symphony as a soundtrack. Sid Ceaser was a live sketch comedy pioneer in the 1950s with his sitcoms Your Show of Shows and Ceaser’s [...]

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 that it would be a good idea to take a moment [...]

Earlier this week I blogged a bit about a special bass case made for Serge Koussevitzky’s bass. Bass blog contributor Benjy sent in the following photos and information regarding this vintage bass trunk:
These pics were sent to me by a bassist friend of mine from Paris, Michaël Greenberg, who also lectures and [...]

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 he played on! If I’m not mistaken, he was very active in adding [...]

This is part 2 of a guest post by double bassist Jean-Yves Bénichou. You can read part 1 of Benjy’s post here. Benjy is bi-national, being a citizen of both the United States and France. He has lived in France for the past 30 years and has been a member of the Strasbourg Philharmonic [...]

This is a guest post by double bassist Jean-Yves Bénichou. Benjy is bi-national, being a citizen of both the United States and France. He has lived in France for the past 30 years and has been a member of the Strasbourg Philharmonic since 1985. He studied double bass at Temple University with Edward Arian and [...]

Bass blog contributor Benjy sent me a link to this feature from the New York Times website. It is a Flash movie documenting some of the new and innovative concert hall designs being commissioned from various architects. Very well done and very interesting.
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Bass blog contributor Jean-Yves Bénichou sent me this great photo and accompanying story:

Some claim that commuting around London is getting to be really difficult and expensive. Not so for my colossal friend John Bakewell!
As former Principle Bass of the London’s Royal Opera House, John likes to while away his retirement hours playing his Stradinini bass [...]

Jean-Yves Bénichou sent me a link to this beautifully created video of 500 female portraits amalgamated into one continuous video (a la Michael Jackson’s ‘Black and White’ video, for those of you who watched MTV in the early 1990’s). Benjy has contributed several articles to the blog in the past–you can visit all of [...]

This is a guest post by double bassist Jean-Yves Bénichou. Benjy is bi-national, being a citizen of both the United States and France. He has lived in France for the past 30 years and has been a member of the Strasbourg Philharmonic since 1985. He studied double bass at Temple University with Edward Arian and [...]