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Forum: Double Bass Talk in General

08-31-2011, 10:40 AM

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The 5-String Double Bass

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Posted By Robert J Spear

Never saw anything like it. I have seen...

Never saw anything like it. I have seen 5-stringers with a high C and a low E, and with a low B and a high G. It would be interesting to see (and hear) a 5-er with a C-extension on the low E. But, I...

Forum: Double Bass Talk in General

08-28-2011, 09:32 AM

Replies: 100

The 5-String Double Bass

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Posted By Robert J Spear

Those guys were seriously trying to see if...

Those guys were seriously trying to see if bassists could take a joke. And I for sure would argue that Beethoven never intended the passage in the 6th to be played cleanly since it is meant to rumble...

Forum: Double Bass Talk in General

08-27-2011, 09:21 AM

Replies: 100

The 5-String Double Bass

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Posted By Robert J Spear

I'm going to have to punt on this one. I don't...

I'm going to have to punt on this one. I don't play enough anymore to have had experience with all the strings that are out there now. I can say that for the low B I would tend to favor a steel...

Forum: Double Bass Talk in General

08-26-2011, 09:02 AM

Replies: 100

The 5-String Double Bass

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Posted By Robert J Spear

Resurrection Thread

Having been in string work most of my life, I think that there are good acoustic and performance reasons why the four-string models prevailed in the violin/viola/cello world. That said, there are...

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