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"Bass is Beautiful" as Gary Karr proclaimed. As snow covers the ground in much of the US on this last day of January, let's enjoy this beautiful music:

There's some debate about who played bass on Stevie Wonder's hit "I was made to love her" in 1967. Sounds like Motown recording techniques and session players, including James Jamerson on bass. LA session bassist Carol Kaye claimed that she played on this song. Who do you think was playing:

According to Stanford Ekholm on Facebook: In mid 60s LaMay and Gary Karr collaborated intimately in building a double bass. Karr even moved to Madison during the building. You can read about it in the Karr biography “Life on the g-string “. The resulting bass can be heard on recordings as this...

The term Mexico derives from Mexica, the Nahuatl name for the Aztec people. Early Spanish explorers used several names for the gulf: Gulf of Florida, Gulf of Cortés, Seno Mexicano

Back in the 1980s, keyboard bass was widely used on songs played on Casey Kasem's American Top 40. I owned an Oberheim OB-8 synth that was my go-to bass for most of the 1980s. What experience do you all have playing keyboard bass?

Twenty years ago, I bought a Line 6 Variax 700 bass guitar for some recording I was doing in Nashville. I had been using Fender Precision bass guitars for many years, but wanted a better instrument for Nashville session playing. I loved the feel of the Line 6 bass guitar even before plugging it...

Back in the early 1980s, George Vance played bass guitar in the top 40 band my wife and I formed. My wife was the lead singer. I played keyboards with a Les Paul six-string around my neck for solos. And Rick Corvases was on drums. Years later, George commissioned a small double bass for his...

I own an August Heck double bass made in Chicago in 1885 that I bought from Murray Grodner when I was one of his students at Indiana University back in the early 1970s. Murray Grodner bought this old August Heck double bass from Philip Sklar when they were both in the NBC Symphony Orchestra in...

Does anyone have experience playing double bass solos with Gustave Bernardel rosin? I ordered a cake today to try for a while.

What are the key points to a professional-quality bow rehair for playing classical music? A few years ago, a double bass shop in the DC area put new hair on my Lothar Seifert German bow. About 20% of the hair was too loose when I tightened the bow. This caused the bow to slip suddenly when I...

Does anyone use Pirastro Perpetuals for orchestra playing? Jason Heath did a video comparing Pirastro Perpetuals to Kaplans. Would Pirastro Perpetuals blend in with section bass, while also sounding good for jazz gigs?

What suggestions do you all have for adjusting a Stenholm C-extension on a Double Bass? Here's some history I found online regarding the introduction of the Stenholm C-extension in the United States: 1950s–1960s — Appears in major U.S. orchestras, including Cleveland and Philadelphia. 1966 —...