One of the fun things about running a blog is seeing how posts from many years ago still generate comments. The following comment comes from a discussion from 2007 about the merits of the Rabbath and Simandl systems as teaching materials for younger students. The...
Double bassist Leon Bosch (we’ve featured him several times in the past on Contrabass Conversations) performs the Serenata from Suite Andaluza by Pedro Valls with pianist Sung-Suk Kang in the following video:
I know I’ll probably get hate mail for putting up two cat posts in short order, but I can’t help but be amazed watching this cool cat. The duets between Nora and her person are really neat to watch:
My wife doesn’t think this instrument sounds very good (!), but I still think it’s pretty cool: About the Octobass, videographer Patrick Shannahan writes: The 12-foot tall Octobass plays so low, it’s lowest string when played fully open is barely in...
My dad got me a papyrus painting of the Egyptian cat god Bubastis while on a trip to Cairo recently, and my wife and I put it up on the wall after moving into our new digs. For some reason, our cat Angel (I used to stroll her and her brother Dan around the...
