Forum: Hybrid DB Strings
04-01-2009, 11:46 PM
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Replies: 17
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Forum: Hybrid DB Strings
04-01-2009, 11:50 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 87,506
thanks
Arnold,
Thanks. I was hoping you'd weigh in.
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Forum: Jazz Corner
03-31-2009, 01:19 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 76,816
charts and chords
Paul and others:
Would you like to expand a little on charts and chords?
Recently I ran off three versions of Hoagy Carmichael's GEORGIA.
That a song I've played many times and it seems like...
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Forum: Italian Bass School
03-31-2009, 01:05 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 20,049
Pietro Pallota
I worked on a Pietro Pallota many years ago. Violin corners, like most Italian basses, very pretty and it sang! I think it was c. 1790?
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Forum: Hybrid DB Strings
03-31-2009, 01:00 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 87,506
Spirocore solo?
Joel,
Thanks. I thought Ken meant solo strings. I've heard a lot of good things about the Spirocore solo strings and had them on my old French bass once when I loaned it out to a couple of...
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Forum: Italian Bass School
03-29-2009, 10:11 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 77,818
Gary Karr's bass
I imagine that when Gary Karr's bass, the "Amati" is sold, it will fetch a record price. It was always referred to as an Amati of 1611. The last time I saw it a couple of years ago it was in the...
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Forum: Hybrid DB Strings
03-29-2009, 09:54 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 87,506
regular
Yes, I'm going with regular tuning. With the short string length there is more tension at pitch. I tend to play like a mad man for a week or so and then the next thing I know the bass as been sitting...
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Forum: Hybrid DB Strings
03-28-2009, 11:09 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 87,506
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Forum: Jazz Corner
03-27-2009, 09:11 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 76,816
crippled ears
Paul,
Why do you say the Real Book will cripple your ears?
I too have done a lot of playing solely be ear and by watching the piano players left hand. Maybe its because I'm getting back into...
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Forum: Hybrid DB Strings
03-27-2009, 09:01 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 87,506
solo for less tension
I have a bass with a short string length and have decided to put on solo strings, tune to regular pitch for less tension. Ideally I'd like a string that would work with both pizz and arco.
Your...
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Forum: Hybrid DB Strings
03-27-2009, 08:51 PM
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Replies: 60
Views: 196,142
solo for regular
I'm deleting this to start a new thread re: solo string set for less tension. See new thread. Thank you.
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Forum: Jazz Corner
01-31-2009, 02:48 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 76,816
muchas tacos
Ken,
That was excellent and I appreciate it. I'm playing some again after hardly playing at all for many, too many years. I've really been improving my hearing, but I wanted to see what others...
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Forum: Jazz Corner
01-30-2009, 08:06 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 76,816
traditonal
I am underwhelmed at the response to the question.
How about some traditional methods?
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Forum: Modern Eastern Europe
01-26-2009, 07:23 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 296,695
and then
Absolutely no need for an apology. I was clearly wrong. As someone said, there's a reason why erasures are put on pencils.
What did this have to do with basses? You started a very good topic...
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Forum: Modern Eastern Europe
01-26-2009, 02:05 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 296,695
memories
Sometimes information gets shifted around in the old brain and doesn't come out right later when one wants to make the recollection.
I may have associated Guadagnini with Cremona for erroneous...
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Forum: Modern Eastern Europe
01-25-2009, 02:07 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 296,695
ok
Thanks for the correctins especially on the spellings. I shuda kept my books. Bergonzi mispelling was a typo, Guadagnini a mistake.
I thought Resengard had said Ceruti was self taught. If he learned...
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Forum: Modern Eastern Europe
01-24-2009, 03:03 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 296,695
labels
One of the most import ways of identifying an instrument is to know what the genuine label looks like. Brinser did a service by showing us copies of labels from violins he had purchased directly from...
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Forum: Modern Handmade Basses
01-22-2009, 03:24 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 20,372
true story
I'm not sure why but Arnold that reminds me of a story I read in one of the violin magazines back in the late 70s. It was about a shop in New York City and it's resident expert. Like all shops they...
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Forum: Modern Eastern Europe
01-22-2009, 03:00 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 296,695
Enabling fakery
Sadly the Brinser book on modern Italian makers has enabled the fakers by providing pages of facimiles of the labels.
I was in a violin shop once that had a modern Chinese instrument varnished from...
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Forum: Modern Eastern Europe
01-21-2009, 10:46 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 296,695
Shake
Ken,
"Oh wad the power the Gifty gae us, to see ourselves as others see us"
Bobby Burns.
As in the other quote....don't quote me on that.
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Forum: Jazz Corner
01-21-2009, 12:13 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 76,816
ear training
I'd like to get some advice on ear training, and I don't mean "stand up, sit or fetch" ( just thought I'd head off you "wags").
How have you trained yourself to hear pitch, chord changes etc.?
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Forum: Modern Eastern Europe
01-21-2009, 10:51 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 296,695
tangled webs
"Oh what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive", Shakespeare.
The violin maker Roger Hargrave has pointed out that the best fakes are made by restorers who are in the best...
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
01-16-2009, 04:15 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 63,482
more placement
I don't know that anyone knows for sure if this was aesthetics or acoustics, but they do arrive at the the acoustic center of the instrument more or less.
I've always loved basses partly because...
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
01-15-2009, 07:56 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 63,482
Italian f holes
Stradivari and before him, the Amati, had definite ideas about F hole placement. Stradivari's original designs still exist showing how and where he marked the fs. In fact these marking are still...
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
01-14-2009, 06:11 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 63,482
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