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photography

Dragonetti’s bass

This photo of Domenico Dragonetti’s Gasparo da Salò comes from Italian bassist Vito Liuzzi. Note the broad shoulders, richly colored varnish, and three string set-up.

A student of mine recently performed the Dragonetti Concerto with orchestra, and he pointed out these very entertaining program notes from Paul Serotsky. This is not exactly the way [...]

Revenge of the cats

Have you ever seen a dog with such a horrified expression? From the always entertaining icanhascheezburger.com:

Chicago School of Violin Making luthiers building copy of Chicago Symphony bassist Dan Armstrong’s bass

Aaron J. Brown and his colleagues at the Chicago School of Violin Making have begun an exciting new bass construction project that we’ll be documenting here at doublebassblog.org.
Aaron is working on producing a copy of Chicago Symphony bassist Dan Armstrong’s 1731 Camillo Camilli double bass. Here’s a shot of Dan at the Chicago School of [...]

A Week in the Life Part 2 - Parking

Read Part 1 of this story here.
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All things being equal, it is almost always a better deal to accept in-town work rather than out-of-town work as a freelancer. The pay is usually better, the hours are usually shorter, and the artistic quality is usually higher.
The one big bummer with working "in-town", at least in Chicago, [...]

Bass shot of the day

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Originally uploaded by mark lorch

This cool shot looks like something out of a Western. Bass players on the frontier!

Northwestern’s School of Music is falling apart - literally!

While strolling around campus recently, I couldn’t help noticing the sorry state of the exterior of the Music Administration Building on Northwestern University’s Evanston campus. Being a graduate of this institution (B.M. 1998, M.M. 2000), it saddens me to see how shabby things are at present on campus. My uncle attended the Northwestern music school [...]