Recent content by Sera Wohldmann

At first I thought it was an app error, but when I checked on my laptop, I noticed the same thing. They usually redirect to the main landing page of either.

I love my 5 String - I have a Christopher hybrid. It took a few weeks of intense arco work to kill the habit of accidental double stops - the bow angle for each string is different from a 4, obviously. The other is intonation - many 5s have a larger scale to make up the volume difference, and...

I use a carbon fiber Finale with black. It came with salt and pepper and I rehaired with black to try it out and I'm sold. Love the feel and sound. I feel like it pulls just a little more punch out of my strings, which for my 5 string helps to bring it up to balance in a section and really sings...

I personally found the combination to be a good match. The Kaplan E feels about the same to start under the bow as the Perm B, and as for timbre my other section mates can't hear a discernible difference in sectionals (where we all turn to face each other and can compare better). As a student...

I'm afraid individual sound clips are out - all I've got's a netbook, and I doubt it could handle it with any dignity. Any issues: None I can find. I just took her up on a chamber music retreat to the Lake Arrowhead/Running Springs region this past weekend, which is up in the mountain area...

Okay, so technically she came home a couple of months ago, but almost as soon as she did, the school semester started again, and I haven't had much time to take pics. Christopher 303, made in 2001, the 7/8 scale 5 string hybrid with violin corners. Lisa Gass at LA Bass Works was amazing to...

I guess I'll be odd one out and say I actually like Clarity quite a bit. It gets some interesting looks the first time you pull it out, but it goes on very smooth. I keep both Winter and Summer on me. (as temps seem to be all over the map both outdoors and in the rehearsal room lately!) I have...

Look up Jennifer Leitham. She's played jazz on lefty double bass for decades, and could probably help you out. I'm on mobile app and can't tell your location, but she's in Pasadena, CA. If that's not good for you in person, she could probably answer your questions via Facebook, too, as she's...

As a married woman, I have always worn my ring, which is an engagement plus attached band. Silver and CZ, but eye catching. Never got in my way, but before I had the two welded together, they would spin around sometimes on fast passages. But that was an easy fix.

Thanks for the concern, but it's definitely not the sound post in this case. As I mentioned, it's a Chinese Cheapie, and it arrived with a glued sound post. It's also got an endpin bent so far forward that it no longer retracts, and a nasty crack in the saddle to boot. It's got a lot of issues...

Thanks everybody. The bass is a year old, and the strings have been on for 8 months. However, I don't have air conditioning and it nearly broke 100 in my city over the weekend. When I tuned yesterday, everything was about a step and a half flat! Plus I had just re-tied my quiver. My bet now is...

Hi, everybody. I had an odd thing happen today right in the middle of practice. In the middle of playing, I heard my G going flat -nasty and quickly. I stopped, grabbed a tuner, and I was at an F#. I tuned back up and started again. By halfway through (Saint-Sens' Elephant from Carnival), I was...

I got a few funny looks from the bar, but the regular crowd was there: The kind that wanted to get drunk thought it was amusing, and the kind that came for the food never paid attention before, either.

I saw this thread and had to share my recent tale... If you just want the punch line, I chose "Show Must Go On." Here's the deal. I had been picked up by a jazz/Latin standards band to play a champagne brunch on Sundays on the Marina. Our pay was modest + tip jar, but we kept out combo...

Good Evening, I was wondering if there was a consensus regarding a reliable method for teaching tenor clef to bassists? I'm a student on double bass (though I teach plenty of electric students as a side job) and have been running into it often enough that I've been curious. It looks pretty...