Recent content by Alexbrasa

This is simply amazing! Very nice work and very gracefull of you to share! I am wondering at get a detachable neck bass for myself and found it puzzling how expensive the cases are. This is a real game changer! I hope you, and the bass, arrived well!

Hi, everybody! Its been a long time since this thread was posted. I am having a similar problem. Turns out it is really hard to find someone able to do this kind of repair, specially in my town. I had tried to reach DBS outillage, but whithout sucess. They didnt answer back. There is no...

I use to get "wow! Your bass sounds like a cello!" very often. And a friend of mine, once after a gig, was approached by this lady who says that she loved his cello sound and all and want him to play in the wedding cerimony of her daughter. The very moment my friend said it was not a cello, but...

I forgott to put some links of the orchestra playing: YouTube - ‪Roberto Tibiriçá e Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira em ensaio‬‏ YouTube - ‪Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira - OSB‬‏ OSB tends to sound better when Minczuk is not conducting. Apparently, when...

Ok Triscuitbass, lets see: As to how the orchestra sounded, I'm suspect to talk, because I played with this ensemble for 13 years and it has been my goal since I began studying bass. The OSB is the most traditional symphonic ensemble in the country, with 70 years of its foundation. For...

Thank you guys! As grundley says, it will be much easier to do the reaudition than stand firm in our position of refuse to work in conditions that are against the orchestral standard. Although I think some of us could play like Bozo and do not pass, because the conductor are in revenge mode...

Yes, it is... I am not against evaluation processes, but what is happening now on that orchestra is just crazyness.:scowl:

in the case of the dead weigth (you are probably talking about old people), they may no longer play well enough to survive an audition wich is strictly equal to the ones we do when we enter the job, but when it comes to the real job of playing the bass in an orchestra (long notes, supporting...

Quote: STOP WHINING!!!! I can't believe your orchestra is getting so much attention. You're lucky AND will most likely get some really fantastic players from the over-done press. Fact is... this should happen more in orchestras across the world. Not every player who's been there for 30 years...