The following article appears in the January issue of Strings Magazine and is written by San Diego Symphony principal bassist Jeremy Kurtz, a former Contrabass Conversations guest and guest author for dbb.org: All Things Strings: Unconventional Wisdom
Bassist Steve Badach sent me the following photo of a truly enormous bass. I wonder what first position looks like on this thing? Doesn’t look like the octobass to me since there isn’t any sort of fingering contraption for the left hand. Click here for a...
Here’s a classic from the blog on your post-turkey digestive day. I still get tears in my eyes at this one even after a couple hundred viewings. As one of my colleagues pointed out to me when I blogged this years ago, check out which bow gets the...
Here’s a little something for all those bass players flying into Chicago to take the principal bass audition and attempt to fill Joe Guastafeste’s shoes: Sent to me by Jon Stefaniak – truly hilarious and pretty on the money in my book
Seen this? My stars–makes me embarrassed for Yale.
