A new article from the journal Nature suggests that the specific chemicals used in treating Stradivarius (and other 17th century violin makers) instruments is what gives them their superior tone. National Geographic reports on the new article: Chemical tricks were the...
Greg Sarchet recently sent me a link to an NPR story about the difficulties Gary Karr recalls facing while flying with a double bass. Gary quit touring in 2001, just before security measures at airports started tightening. I haven’t flown since 2001 myself, and...
I recently discovered this site devoted to the great double bassist François Rabbath. It was created by one of Rabbath’s relatives and is a great place to start learning about this double bass virtuoso and master pedagogue. It contains a links page to recordings...
Here is a great double bass video performance of Vittorio Monti’s Czardas on the double bass. This bassist looks a little like me!
Today (12/18/06) the Bass Blog passed a new record for both visits and page views, with 222 unique visits and 575 page views today. That makes just under 12,000 unique visits since July 2006 (when I started keeping track of these stats) and over 30,000 page views for...
