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Forum: General Double Bass Music and Playing 02-09-2013, 01:27 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 11,312
Posted By Jeff Schwartz
A couple of ideas: For me time problems are...

A couple of ideas:

For me time problems are often technique problems, i.e. I'm messing up the rhythm because I'm spending too long on a shift, bow change, etc.

A practice technique I hear...
Forum: Amps, etc. [DB] 01-09-2013, 05:04 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 19,627
Posted By Jeff Schwartz
I was using a no-name German flatback, small-ish...

I was using a no-name German flatback, small-ish 3/4. Various string sets (Obligato, Sprio mittel, Bel Canto, Superflexible) and a Realist. If I turned the amp up more than halfway feedback was a...
Forum: Amps, etc. [DB] 01-09-2013, 10:52 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 19,627
Posted By Jeff Schwartz
I used one for a few years. Not bad, for a...

I used one for a few years. Not bad, for a modestly priced bass guitar amp, but it is definitely voiced for bass guitar. I found it tricky to use with string bass - prone to feedback, unappealing...
Forum: Double Bass Talk in General 12-16-2012, 09:16 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 103,527
Posted By Jeff Schwartz
Check this out: ...

Check this out:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152343279530035&set=a.243159385034.297290.611705034&type=1&theater

(sorry for the Facebook link, it's all that's out there, as far as I...
Forum: Double Bass Talk in General 09-28-2012, 05:47 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 6,060
Posted By Jeff Schwartz
Now that the deal has gone down, I'll tell you...

Now that the deal has gone down, I'll tell you the rest of the story.

For about 10 years I've played an old German shop flatback. Lovely jazz bass, but it didn't really deliver the big fundamental...
Forum: Double Bass Talk in General 09-13-2012, 08:14 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 6,060
Posted By Jeff Schwartz
Videos?

I am interested in a bass being sold by a dealer on the east coast (I am in L.A.). He will send it for evaluation if I pay shipping.
My teacher suggested that, before gambling the shipping costs, I...
Forum: Luthier's Corner 08-06-2012, 03:48 PM
Replies: 108
Views: 169,778
Posted By Jeff Schwartz
D extension

Lemur had this bass for a while:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2wWDdPSvnQ

It's the only other D extension I've seen.
Forum: Double Bass Talk in General 10-31-2011, 02:36 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 10,969
Posted By Jeff Schwartz
I have the Laboire endpin on my bass. My teacher...

I have the Laboire endpin on my bass. My teacher is a big fan of this and some other elements of the Rabbath approach. Mine was installed by World of Strings (in Long Beach, CA).
I have the carbon...
Forum: Hybrid DB Strings 09-07-2011, 03:24 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 7,898
Posted By Jeff Schwartz
Superflexibles

Am I the only one in the world who uses these strings? They were recommended to me by a more experienced section-mate when I said I liked the power and longevity of steel strings but thought...
Forum: Classical and Symphony Bass Playing 02-25-2007, 07:56 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 5,291
Posted By Jeff Schwartz
Why not try to make your own? The original is...

Why not try to make your own? The original is here: http://imslp.org/wiki/Canon_in_D_%28Pachelbel%2C_Johann%29
Forum: French Bass School 02-23-2007, 05:34 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 6,777
Posted By Jeff Schwartz
new thread

Thanks Ken! I've started a new thread at http://smithbassforums.com/showthread.php?p=992#post992
Forum: German/Czech Shop Basses 02-23-2007, 05:30 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 7,112
Posted By Jeff Schwartz
Bass ID (repost from French section)

I think this is the appropriate location for this question.

I wrote in the French section of "This Old Bass:" "French? German?
Here are some photos of my bass:...
Forum: French Bass School 02-21-2007, 06:45 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 6,777
Posted By Jeff Schwartz
French? German?

Here are some photos of my bass: http://www.flickr.com/photos/32223245@N00/

It was called French school when I bought it from World of Strings but later described as German when they appraised it....
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