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Double Bass ISB 2011 Conference

Russell Bergum

Russell Bergum

Dec 10, 2006
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Rochester, MN
#1
Anyone with info/pics/impressions, etc from the 2011 ISB Conference, please post here.


For starters, does anyone have a list of winners of the Maker's Competition.

I know that Daniel Hatchez won his 3rd Gold Medal, and that Nick Lloyd won a silver medal for tone. I head that Nick also received a Certificate of Merit for Workmanship.

Any other info?
 
#2
I was there Tuesday. Sat in on the luthiers panel, attended a couple of recitals and did the necessary drooling over basses and bows, and made to trips to the competition room. Also, finally got to put some faces to names and meet some terrific people.

I'm flying to NYC early in the morning but will give a bit of a report later.

Louis
 
#3
I've been here two days and will go tomorrow morning before my flight home. It has been a great experience, as I expected. Happy to meet a few TBers along the way, too.

One highlight was hearing all of the maker's entries this morning. Listening to all of these basses played arco and pizz back to back in a great hall was a beautiful thing. That alone was worth the trip. :)

Aaron Reilly, Benedict Puglisi and Bill Lakeberg also won Silver for Tone.
 
#5
Once again, I played a Schnitzer Ergo bass, this one owned by Kurt Moroki, and it fits me to a tee.

Aaron Reilly's Silver Medal winner is just fantastic, I love it. Great basses by Nick Lloyd and Seth Kimmel. I played a wonderful Hannah Mayne 7/8. I heard an old bass by James Brown played by a great classical player, and it made me feel really good. :)
 
#6
Eric Hochberg said:
Once again, I played a Schnitzer Ergo bass, this one owned by Kurt Moroki, and it fits me to a tee.

Aaron Reilly's Silver Medal winner is just fantastic, I love it. Great basses by Nick Lloyd and Seth Kimmel. I played a wonderful Hannah Mayne 7/8. I heard an old bass by James Brown played by a great classical player, and it made me feel really good. :)
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Which Seth Kimmel bass or basses did you play? I have a down payment on his 3rd Ave bass. I'll fly out in 2 weeks to decide if I want one his current basses, or whether to have him make a High Street model for me.
 
#7
Russell Bergum said:
Which Seth Kimmel bass or basses did you play? I have a down payment on his 3rd Ave bass. I'll fly out in 2 weeks to decide if I want one his current basses, or whether to have him make a High Street model for me.
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Sorry, I don't know the models. I played 3 in all, one was gamba, one violin, and I can't remember the shape of the one Robertson's (or was it Gage) is selling. They all seemed like fine basses. I think I liked the violin model at Nick Lloyd's booth the best.
 
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Russell Bergum said:
Nick's basses with imported German scrolls are now $19.5K Basses with his own hand carved scroll are $25K. Make it a roundback and you add $5K. Add a C-extension for another $2350.
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Are the necks completely imported or does he graft the scroll on his neck? It seems like 6k is pretty deep for a visual like a scroll but I'm sure some would disagree.
 
#17
Here's a scan of the final results sheet for the makers' competition this week. As you can see, it is not a system in which there is one winner of each award level. Rather as was explained to us each instrument was assessed in isolation, at least in theory. I'll be posting pictures (rather bad ones I'm afraid, owing to wrestling a bit with my little boy's boredom while they appeared on stage before us on Wednesday morning) on a new page on my site sometime this weekend, once I'm able to put names to most of them.
 

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