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Originally Posted by Ken Smith
The DB has many more difficulties than just string length. In the Orchestra world, it's just a big Violin meaning that the music you play is similar or the same as the Cello and often close the to Violin in harder works meaning 'no Mercy' given due to size. You play what's written and bite your lip!..lol
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I may be wrong (what, me wrong?) but I've read that in Beethoven's day the lousiest musicians (presumably string players) were put onto double bass and told to 'double the cello part' (an octave lower, of course). They weren't expected to 'get' all the notes.
Isn't it a bit easier though, Ken, when there's 6 or 8 of you playing the same part? I did some jazz gigs with Gordon Brisker in 1997 (my dad died while we were on tour... so I missed the latter gigs) and there were some pretty important people in the band. He called some hard (and fast) tunes and you had to nail them... there was nowhere to hide! Both disciplines (jazz & classical) can be the test of a man IMO.
IMO is Ken's Corner talk for 'in my opinion'.