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This week we bring you a conversation with Chicagoland double bass luthier, teacher, and performer Steve Reinfranck. Steve runs SMR Double Basses in Evanston, Illinois, writes regularly for Bass World (the publication of the International Society of Bassists), and operates a double bass teaching studio.
We also listen to a track from the [...]

Snow day in Chicago
Brian Dickie took a very pretty photo of Chicago right after this past snowstorm. Much nicer-looking than the roads on my harrowing Milwaukee trip home.
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Honolulu symphony can’t pay musicians - The Honolulu Advertiser
A Honolulu Symphony concert went off as scheduled last night at the Blaisdell [...]

You’ve just gotta love this profession. No matter how many roadblocks get tossed in their path, musicians always seem to find a way around them, taking things in stride and laughing about it later with each other over either coffee or beer (depending on the hour!). Whether it’s butchering the Messiah by whacking the [...]

National Symphony Orchestra principal bassist Robert Oppelt put together a great page of information about the wide variety of grips used by professionals on the German bow.  As a French bow player, I always find myself struggling when offering advice to students on how exactly to approach the subtleties of German bow technique, and [...]

If At First You Don’t Succeed recently posted about a comment from bass blog contributor Benjy detailing his experiences studying the Rabbath technique.  There is a lot similarity between Rabbath’s scale and arpeggio practice methodology and that of Ivan Galamian, and this post details a cellist’s perspective on this sort of practicing.  It’s always interesting [...]

This instrument plays great (as you can hear from this clip) and is available for $9500. Contact Todd Matthews at gtmatthews@gmail.com for more information. You can also find this video ad under our For Sale page, and it will be going out on the Contrabass Conversations feed as well as on YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, [...]

The following is a guest post from Double Bass Blog contributor Phillip W. Serna. Check out Phillip’s recitals and interviews on his Contrabass Conversations page, and visit him online at http://www.phillipwserna.com/. Enjoy!
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Contrabass Conversations and the Double Bass Blog are continues is series on early bass performers. It will highlight many different perspectives on early bass/ [...]

The following is a guest post from Double Bass Blog contributor Phillip W. Serna. Check out Phillip’s recitals and interviews on his Contrabass Conversations page, and visit him online at http://www.phillipwserna.com/. Enjoy!
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Contrabass Conversations and the Double Bass Blog are continues is series on early bass performers. It will highlight many different perspectives on early bass/ [...]

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dad bass weatherford, originally uploaded by bunæn.

This great photo of the solitary bass player was taken by a Japanese exchange student of active Flickr (great photo sharing service) member Bunaen’s father. There [...]

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3180 Double Bass Duo, originally uploaded by tengtan.
Here’s an action shot of two double bass players from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. This photo was taken at one of the four free concerts [...]