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Interesting article by Gary Karr on conductors and double basses...

http://www.thestrad.com/cpt-latests/too-few-conductors-understand-their-double-bass-section/

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Very interesting, thanks. It led me onto this http://www.maestronet.com/forum/index.php?/topic/328014-making-a-double-bass/ which I think might take me a bit longer!

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Better still download a huge PDF from here on Making a Double Bass

http://www.roger-hargrave.de/Seiten/english/Bibliothek/Bibliothek.htm

just lovely stuff. So many lovely photos. So lush.

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A fascinating article. I've always been suspicious of the mid-board pizz, knowing full well that most jazzers get a huge sound from the end of the board.

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A fascinating article. I've always been suspicious of the mid-board pizz, knowing full well that most jazzers get a huge sound from the end of the board.
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The loudest punchiest bass pizz I have come across is way up the fingerboard by the left hand - perhaps 8 inches away. It sounds like a cannon. Not that it could be used for anything fluid or walking.

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My teacher was taught by Gary Karr so I got the whole "slow bow, 'cello rosin, focused sound" thing. And the 1234 finger pattern. I copped a lot of flak when going to youth orchestras outside my own county when other tutors saw technique which was not Simandl.

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