Andy Anderson’s double bass lesson series

I was poking around the other day at some old statistics, and I couldn’t help that, on YouTube alone, Andy Anderson’s double bass lesson series has been viewed over 88,000 times.  That’s especially remarkable considering that we initially...

Creepy photos of abandoned Six Flags New Orleans

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:

How guitars really resonate

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 and Rolf Martinsson’s Double Bass Concerto

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...