Downright_Low

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Current Setup

Samuel Eastman SB90, Hybrid, spruce top hand carved, laminated maple ribs and back, maple neck; wooden endpin, angled; Obligato Solo AEB(tuned GDA), Obligato Orchestra E; Pernambuco german bow, by Muller; carbonfiber french and geramn bow by yitamusic via ebay; Sherman's Violin Rosin - light, but this will probably change soon to Super Sensitive Violin - light...

Favorite Genres

Blues, Reggae, Baroque, Country, Rock, Folk especially foreign, Native American, and everything else

Gigs and Ensembles

bands of friends; University S.O.

Previously Owned Gear

Strings: Helicore Orchestra medium gauge; Pirastro Flexocor; Pirastro Original Flexocor; Thomastik-Infeld Superflexible.

Sherman's Bass Rosin; Carlsson's; Nyman's; Pop's; G.Brohan's Oak soft; Sherman's Cello Rosin; Glaesel Violin rosin; Pirastro Bass Rosin mittel; Hidersine med, no 2; Thomastik-Infeld bass rosin kunstler (artist) mittel; Petz bass rosin no. 4 hard; Jade bass solo;

Rosin: Nyman; Pops; Oak (soft); Carlsson; Pirastro (mittel); Thomastik-Infeld Kunstler II (mittel); Jade; Sherman's Bass Rosin, Sherman's Cello rosin; Glaesel and Hill (violin rosins).

G.A.S. List

Jargar strings. As well as many others I've written down on this piece of paper. Rosins include Oak Medium, and others...

Also I wish to work up the money to afford a fully-carved, round-back bass... someday.

There's these guitars... ah, never mind.

Influences and Teachers

(In no particular order) Tracy Rowell, Fred Patterson, my Father, Francois Rabbath, Edgar Meyer, Charles Mingus, Misha Maisky, Yo-Yo Ma, Jack Bruce, Pierre Fournier, David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich, Valentin Berlinsky, Max Dimoff, Chuck Traeger, Virginia Dixon, to name a FEW, and most any music, or instrumentalist.

Hobbies and Interests

Drums, guitar, piano, painting, cooking, composition, poetry, bass making/repair, and...

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