Most string players own several different bows during the course of their playing career, usually starting on a fiberglass or inexpensive wooden bow in early years of study and upgrading many times on the journey toward professional-level playing. Like strings, rosin,...
The following is a guest blog post from Gene Perla. Check out his website for more information, and learn more on his appearance on Contrabass Conversations in 2017. It all started with Dome. That’s drummer Adam Nussbaum. Decades had gone by without the opportunity to...
Houston Grand Opera principal bassist Dennis Whittaker has an awesome feature in HGO’s house publication Opera Cues
Like most people I know, I’d hoped for years to make my way to Australia. When I learned that Rob Nairn would be hosting the third annual Melbourne Bass Day and was having my good friend Andrés Martín as a guest artist along with many of Australia’s leading bassists,...
•Professor Kieran Hanlon shares some tips on shifting.•Check out Michael Bornak’s new Solobass•Cool overview of Cleveland Institute of Music’s double bass program•This question about jazz pizzicato generated a big discussion.•Marcos Machado and François...
