Recent content by Tuomo Haapala

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    Double Bass tuning a cello like a bass- where to find strings?

    Hi, Thread! I have no anwer to your string problem but maybe an other solution. I tried to get my cello in bass tuning in many ways-taking a bass D string and tuning it up to E , tuned up the cello G to A, tuning up a high C bass-string to D and tuning down the cello a string to G. Not very a...
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    Double Bass Self-taught bassists and the avant-garde

    Hello Rasputin ! Very intresting thought. let me go a little bit further in this discussion: Yoy ask if self-tought musicians easier travel their "own way" artistically. I think it can be so in many cases. The way our music education is organized does not prefer artistic personality and own...
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    Double Bass Decent Low C for Fifht tuned bassfiddle..

    I tune my bass in Fifths since 2000 and am really happy with it. Better sound, no jumping between solo-and orchestra tuning, no extensions and same bass everywhere. It is hard to understand why I could spent so many of hours and so much money changing strings or having two basses. I have...