Phillip Serna in International Musician

Phillip Serna, an old friend of mine who has contributed voluminously to Contrabass Conversations ever since its inception as well as regularly posting here on doublebassblog.org, was featured in this month’s International Musician for his Viols in Our Schools...

Czech Bass for Sale

Though I killed off the bass blog for sale page back in 2008 (too hard to maintain), I’m still putting up the occasional info about basses for sale. The following instrument is for sale from bass blog and Contrabass Conversations fan Ben Huff: Czech double bass,...

Another Promotion!!!

For readers of Double Bass Blog and MostlyBass , to promote the fifth edition of my book I have a great deal for you! During the rest of March, if you purchase a print edition of my book, “An Introduction to Double Bass Playing”, I will give you the PDF...

Kittens inspired by kittens

Oh no! More cat videos on the bass blog! Actually, it’s been a while since I’ve put up any cat vids, and this one (which bassist John Floeter pointed out to me) is too cute to miss: