Strollin’ Down the River

Bass blog contributor Jean-Yves Bénichou sent me this great photo and accompanying story: Some claim that commuting around London is getting to be really difficult and expensive. Not so for my colossal friend John Bakewell! As former Principle Bass of the London’s...

Guy Tuneh and Mischa Meyer play Rossini Duetto mvt 2 – Andante

This video features a performance of the second movement of the Rossini Duetto for Cello and Bass. Guy Tuneh was a former pupil of Professor B. Sanderling in Berlin, and he currently studies with Wolfgang Güttler in Basel. I have worked with Güttler in the past, and I...

Weekly Bass Blog Wrap-Up

Doing a weekly wrap-up is something that I have been thinking about for a while. I got the idea from Lorelle VanFossen’s blog Lorelle on WordPress, an excellent blog about blogging (of great interest to me–probably not so much for most bass blog readers)....

Angry airport rant from Phillip Serna

I just received this story from bass blog contributor Phillip Serna documenting an infuriating experience at the airport with this viola da gamba. It is quite fitting that I got this story just a day after putting out the first part of my Basses, Planes, Trains, and...

500 Female Portraits in Western Art

Jean-Yves Bénichou sent me a link to this beautifully created video of 500 female portraits amalgamated into one continuous video (a la Michael Jackson’s ‘Black and White’ video, for those of you who watched MTV in the early 1990’s). Benjy has...