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Insightful Rabbath technique comment from Benjy

Yazan: Jason | 07 November 2007 | 2 Comments
Categories: bass, Benjy, student resources, technique

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 and highlight [...]

Koussevitzky’s giant bass case

Yazan: Jason | 04 October 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, Benjy, photography

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 does research [...]

Great Bottesini photo from Benjy

Yazan: Jason | 24 September 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, Benjy, photography

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 [...]

Auditioning at 54 – part 2

Yazan: Jason | 26 June 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: advice, bass, Benjy, education, student resources

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 since [...]

Auditioning at 54 – guest post from Jean-Yves Bénichou

Yazan: Jason | 25 June 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: advice, bass, Benjy, education, orchestra news, student resources

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 [...]