[Richard Prowse]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

I dreamed last night that I was doing an Orchestra concert and playing GERMAN Bow.

I woke up, came into the office and played 6 of my Basses with 2 different French Bows.. whew...

It was just a nightmare..

I was in the South Island doing a nine day tour with a trio a week ago. The singer likes to play the verse (rubato) to Pennies From Heaven as a sort of intro. I started to play it with him, using French grip on my German bow, and it sounded quite nice. I did this on a few gigs.
We experienced some very heavy rain when the tour got to the Marlborough Sounds. When I stopped using that French grip on that tune the weather cleared up. I think the German bow encourages nicer weather.