In an ongoing attempt to improve the usefulness of this site, I am going to add a page listing basses, bows, and other gear for sale from bass players. If you are interested in having any instruments or other gear listed on this page you can e-mail me or leave a...
This is a post from double bassist from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music student Nicholas Hart. Nick will be contributing weekly posts to the bass blog about life as a music student in one of the nation’s most exclusive programs. I think readers will...
The 2007 Whitewater Winter Bassfest, an event that I started five years ago at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, just happened a couple of weekends ago. Scott Kreger, the new double bass instructor at UWW and a member of the Milwaukee Symphony, was teaching...
Here is a short (but excellent) clip of double bassist Boguslaw Furtok playing the last movement of the Eccles Sonata. The camera zooms in on his right hand, giving viewers an opportunity to check out his bow grip. German players are most likely more aware of the...
David Ballam sent me a link to a video of Edicson Ruiz of the Berlin Philharmonic performing the Concerto for Double Bass by Lars-Erik Larsson. The conductor in the video is Eduardo Marturet. What an amazing player! You will have to use (the dreaded) Real Player to...
