Recent content by Howard Miller

This is a correction to my last post. The fingerboard dimensions are correct but the string center to string center dimension given as 25mm is at the bridge, rather than the bridge end of the fingerboard. At the bridge end of the fingerboard the string separations are 20mm, leaving about 14mm of...

The width dimensions of my Kolstein Panormo model five string bass are 97mm straight across the under side of the bridge end of the board and 110mm around the arc. The nut end of the fingerboard is 45mm wide. The string centers are about 25mm or 1" apart, leaving about 5mm of board beyond the...

I bought my first bass nearly fifty years ago and after about two or three years and many broken gut and nylon E strings I figured out that it made no sense to put the thickest string on the lowest tuning peg. I reversed the strings as described by Don and still do it that way today. I haven't...

I am a lefty and for 40 years my only bass was a 1956 German plywood of unknown (to me) make. I simply reversed the strings but always yearned for a bass built for left handed playing. In 1997 I had Kolstein's build me a 5 string left handed version of their Panormo model. The bass sounds...

Coincidentally, I just went to my music room for a quick burst on my bass and on top of a pile of bass playing magazines was issue number 1 of 'Double Bassist' featuring Winterbottom's Maggini bass on the front cover. There is a short write-up on Winterbottom on page 4.

I have a Novello double bass primer written in the UK in 1934 by A.C. White & F. A. Echlin, and my copy was reprinted in 1951. The parts of the double bass and the correct playing stance are illustrated by photographs of Charles Winterbottom and his Maggini bass. Charles Winterbottom was...