Help further study of double bass ergonomics

Butler University bass professor David Murray (one of the bassists featured on this weekend’s Contrabass Conversations episode) recently passed along this request from double bassist Karna Mason.  She’s doing a study on playing-related pain in double...

Jeff Weisner’s Upcoming Peabody Recital

This is a post from National Symphony Orchestra bassist Jeff Weisner. Jeff also teaches bass at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore and co-authors the blog PeabodyDoubleBass. Click here for all of Jeff’s doublebassblog.org posts. ____________ One month from today I’ll...

Bad Boyz of Bass featured this weekend on Contrabass Conversations

We’ll be featuring an interview with David Murray, Volkan Orhon, Paul Sharpe, and Anthony Stoops on this weekend’s Contrabass Conversations episode.  These four bassists have been assembling from time to time as the Bad Boyz of Bass, and they are certainly...

The best way to listen to Contrabass Conversations

Doesn’t the expression on my face (below) make you curious what this video’s all about?  Check it out–notice how I put my hand up to shield my face as a car pulls into the spot next to me in the parking lot.  I guess that I didn’t want to look...