Mark Deutsch plays the Bazantar

Are you familiar with the bazantar? I wasn’t either until a few minutes ago, but I definitely want one now. Richard Carnegie passed along a link to this video through the Unusual Instruments’ Music Videos blog. This is one to bookmark, folks, and I hope...

Neal Conan interviews Twitter co-founders

I recently heard a great feature on Talk of the Nation from National Public Radio. On it, host Neal Conan is chatting with Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone. The adoption of Twitter for such a wide variety of uses has been pretty surprising, and the...

MostlyBass Milestone

Hi readers, Peter Tambroni here from MostlyBass.com. I’ve almost reached 100 posts over at MostlyBass.com! To celebrate, I’ll be giving away a download (or more) from my catalog. Any requests? A big thanks to Jason & Double Bass Blog for advice and...

World’s Least Comfortable Bass Stools

Have you ever sat on a bass stool that was bad to the bone? I don’t mean some vaguely uncomfortable, scruffy, mangy, chewed up old wooden stool or a squeaky bar stool designed to elicit annoyed glances from all the cellists in front of you. I’m talking...