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...
2009 marks my fifth year in the world of blogging–hard to believe for me, for it seems like only a couple of months ago that I started putting up blog posts on a regular basis. Man, does time fly! Stages of Blogging I’ve gone through several different...
This is cat week on the blog, I suppose. I try to keep away from the kitty videos since this is primarily a bass blog, but again, I can’t resist putting this one out. This video shows a scenario that I seem to go through every time I sit on the couch to chill...
Phillip Serna, an old friend of mine who has contributed voluminously to Contrabass Conversations ever since its inception as well as regularly posting here on doublebassblog.org, was featured in this month’s International Musician for his Viols in Our Schools...
Though I killed off the bass blog for sale page back in 2008 (too hard to maintain), I’m still putting up the occasional info about basses for sale. The following instrument is for sale from bass blog and Contrabass Conversations fan Ben Huff: Czech double bass,...
