Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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my double bass, originally uploaded by sixcolora.
In the summer, I usually carry around a couple of towels to mop up sweat and keep the varnish from getting sticky. Playing the [...]

Double bassist David Ballam sent me this great photo of his extension (made by Chris Thelkreld-Wiegend) dominating the Chicago skyline. David is a Masters degree students studying with Peter Lloyd at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. I really like this photo!

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Double Bass and Single Love, originally uploaded by A-Wop-Bop-A-Loo-Bop!.
Look out for your bridge, folks, or this could happen to you. This 30-year-old photograph shows a monstrous bass owned by a bassist [...]

Here’s a shot by Julieta Cervantes (for the New York Times) of Tim Cobb along with James Levine, John Harbison, Elliot Carter, and Milton Babbitt. Tim is the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra principal bassist.

Read the accompanying New York Times story here. Thanks to bass blog reader Jon for passing along this link.
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We just added a new instrument to the bass blog For Sale page.  This bass is being sold by Maurice Clubb of the Pacific Northwest Ballet and Tacoma Symphony.  Check out the For Sale page for more information (plus photos) of this bass.
Here’s a neat shot of a Jim Hamm (maker of the Gary Karr [...]

Last week I put out some fun Photo Booth photos of Elgin Symphony bassists Tim Shaffer and Scott Rosenthal.  Well, I got in on the action earlier this year as well, just before interviewing Scott for Contrabass Conversations:

I love Photo Booth!

I’ve been enjoying reading the posts from Eastman School of Music senior (and former student of mine) Eric Steffens on his blog documenting his experiences studying bass in Vienna.  Eric has been having a great time checking out all sorts of things in Austria, like discovering a house that Beethoven lived in:

…seeing a performance [...]

We’ll be finishing up our interview with Michael Hovnanian on this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode and get a chance to hear some of his double bass playing.  If you’d like to catch up with his previous interview segments, you can visit his Contrabass Conversations page here.
As Drew McManus mentioned on his blog Adaptistration, Michael kept [...]

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 [...]

Although orchestral players see this size discrepancy every day, it is always amazing to see how the double bass towers over its smaller string family brethren.  It’s amazing how similar many of our techniques are given this humongous difference:
 
(photo credit - petravz)
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