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I got some years ago two German Yitamusic bows. One is a Top Model A carbon bow - and I can't recommend this bow, the stick is too soft. Other bass players told me the same. The other bow is a snakewood bow, quiet heavy with 161g - but I like heavy bows for my orchestral 5-string DB. The...

I'm 1,73 m / 5' 8" and have two 4/4 basses with a string length of 1,08 m / 42 1/2". I don't have big hands and I pull out the endpin 15 cm / 6". And it works perfectly - for me. So if You "fall in love" with a 4/4 get it. Otherwise a 3/4 would be better. And don't forget: It's much harder to...

Yes, act 3, starting at bar 55. Best, Thomas

Alban Berg: "Wozzeck" 3rd movement; "Lulu" 1st und 2nd movement Karl Amadeus Hartmann: 3rd symphony, beginning Hans Pfitzner: "Palestrina", 1st movement Bernd Alois Zimmermann: "Die Soldaten" 3rd movement Richard Strauss: "Ariadne auf Nanxos" 2nd movement Not an orchestral solo (like the...

Theodor Hermann Pfretzschner (1915 - 1979) was a very good bow maker of the famous Pretzschner family. He started his work in 1930.

Even in the famous orchestras from Berlin, Munich or Vienna (Austria) normally half of the bass section plays four stringers, the other half five stringers. Only for special works like Wagner they all play five stringers. It is true: Extensions are quiet rare in Germany but within the last...

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Hi! I use the same EUB like Mr. Fjelstrom: a NS Design CR5M with Spirocore mittel, most practicing classical music. Best, Thomas

Also very interesting - maybe you can get it translated with Google: Invalid Link Removed . Best, Tom