Former New World Symphony bassist Andy Giller is looking for a double bass flight trunk for sale large enough to fit a full-size bass. Any readers out there looking to sell a bass trunk? If so, please get in touch (leave a comment or click the contact button in the...
Royal Philharmonic principal bassist Corin Long died in a tragic accident earlier this year, and his sister Vanessa is organizing a memorial concert for Corin and their other Sheila. She wrote to me recently inquiring if I might spread the word about this event,...
Regular bass blog contributor Benjy sent in this great photo from an old International Society of Bassists journal that he scanned, retouched, and framed. Benjy writes: I’m sure that it will amuse the bass community- we can actually count the number of strings...
I hope that readers enjoyed Orchestras – A Secret Society of Weirdoes (and I’m one of them!), which I put out on the blog yesterday as part 4 of This Crazy Business. This series has been a lot of fun to write, and I’m in the middle of putting...
Check out the new little video player just below the tabs at the top of this page. I just added this new feature to the blog and, I’ve got to say, this thing is cool. It contains all of the videos we’ve put out for the blog and for Contrabass...
