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All double bass articles
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NewsFury as double bassists barred from French trains
Size restrictions on SNCF trains exclude double bassists from travelling with their instruments, as musicians share their stories of discrimination and being ‘treated like thugs’
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The Strad Calendar 2023: c.1585 Gasparo da Salo double bass
The wood used for the front came from a 250-year-old tree, making parts of this beautiful instrument around 700 years old
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Blogs
The Girls in the Magnesium Dress: Expanding repertoire for double bass and harp duo
Synesthetic artist, composer and double bassist Valentina Ciardelli explains why it’s important to explore new ensemble and instrumental combinations
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Ones to watch: Five up-and-coming bass players
Our October 2022 issue spotlights some young double bassists committed to bringing forward new music for the instrument
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News
‘A rich, chocolatey, nutty tone’: Rick Stotijn’s basses
The double bassist outlines his range of instruments he uses to suit particular repertoire
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Review
Book review: 75 Years on 4 Strings: The Life and Music of François Rabbath
Cathy Elliott reads Hans Sturm’s biography of possibly the most significant double bassist of the 20th century
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News
ISB celebrates new double bass repertoire with composition competition
The David Walter 2022 Composition Competition celebrates new works for double bass that have not entered standard repertoire
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Review
Book review: An Auditioning Double Bassist’s Tool Kit
Cathy Elliott looks through Jon McCullough-Benner’s book featuring bowings, fingerings and useful tips for standard audition repertoire
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Video
Inclination, tilt and skew: bow curves on the double bass
Double bassist David Allen Moore explains bow angle variables to help achieve musical expression with the bow
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News
Bassist Ulrich Wolff retires from Berlin Philharmonic
The double bassist played his final concert with the orchestra on 30 December 2021 after 44 years of service
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Video
Drops and lifts: double bass string-crossing in Mozart’s Symphony no.35
Double bassist David Allen Moore demonstrates how to solve challenging string-crossing problems
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Review
Book review: The Double Bass Book
Philip Brown reviews a comprehensive guide to the double bass, published for the first time in English
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Double bass technique: Back muscles, weight, and flexibility in the right hand
How to get the most out of your body when playing the double bass, by Dan Styffe, principal bassist for the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music
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Double bass beginners should play in all left-hand positions
Thomas Martin pinpoints some common technical problems for young bassists and insists that beginners shouldn't be restricted to playing in the lower positions. From the May 2014 issue
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The Strad Calendar 2022: Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi double bass c.1770
Landolfi’s choice of wood ranges from plain maple scrolls to highly flamed backs
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Review
Book review: The Paganini of the Double Bass: Bottesini in Britain
Stephen Street reviews one of the first works in English on the great 19th-century double bassist Giovanni Bottesini
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Video
Happy birthday to Leon Bosch
The internationally acclaimed double bassist celebrates his 60th birthday today
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‘I Got Rhythm’: using ‘rhythm changes’ to explore improvisation on the double bass
In this excerpt from the April 2011 issue, bassist John Goldsby writes about using the harmonic structure of Gershwin’s classic song as a basis for new jazz melodies and improvisations
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Video
Schubert String Quartet no.14 in D minor ‘Death and the Maiden’ for bass quartet
Watch the Bassinova Quartet perform the first movement of Schubert’s work, recorded remotely from four separate continents
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Technique: Crawl, walk, run
Bass player Danny Ziemann illustrates how to build an improvised solo line from a simple bass accompaniment
