This lengthy (144 pages–I’m only partially through it) dissertation by Andrew William Brown was sent to be by bassist Steve Badach and addresses one of the longtime debates among bassists, namely the tonal differences between flat-backed and round-backed...
Michael Hovnanian has continued to add new movements to his multi-track recordings of the Marcello sonatas. Michael has been taking the six Marcello sonatas and recording solo and continuo lines for each of them. It’s a great project to follow along with, not...
Here’s a set of 75 photos from people who have snuck into the now long-abandoned (closed after Hurricane Katrina) Six Flags in New Orleans. Pretty nasty-looking (yet fascinating) place:
Here’s a cool article as well as some accompanying BBC photos in which lasers are used to show how soundboards really resonate on a guitar. Cool stuff via audiogeekzine.
Dan Styffe, who serves as Co-Principal Bass in Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Professor at The Norwegian Academy of Music and Barratt Dues´s Institute of Music, recently premiered Rolf Martinsson’s Double Bass Concerto with the Oslo Philharmonic. Here’s...
