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Double Bass Simandl history?

Sep 24, 2011
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In its day, was this text the only one used by teachers or in schools, both book 1 and book 2, or where there other texts also used? And why to this day Simandl's method remains (arguably) the "foundation" text for DB playing?

Thanks for reading!