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by Roberto Talavera

…after somone hits it with a bat.

More custom work from bass tattoo artist, Chris Strough. Photos courtesy of C&D Custom Designs, available on the web through http://store.gotofmi.com, CA based company, but MD built basses…

circa 2005

Your poorly made Franz Hoffman bass makes a 3rd grade girl want to quit in frustration. Thanks. The fingerboard has warped so bad the G string rests against it. The adjusters – yeah, they’re useless. I moved the bridge to gain a millimeter or two. I ranted out Shar here.

Meanwhile my Shen basses (yes more expensive) rock!

I’m asking you, the reader, to consider shopping elsewhere.

Here’s one in action!

More pictures courtesy of C&D Custom Designs, available on the web through http://store.gotofmi.com, CA based company, but MD built basses…

Check out these custom detail jobs. Photos courtesy of C&D Custom Designs, available on the web through http://store.gotofmi.com, CA based company, but MD built basses…

This past weekend I was practicing and working on some rather fast sixteenth note passages. I wanted to get the down bows and up to be exactly the same length – and very short. Hmmm. I could be out stickers on my bow like I do for students. Nah, not accurate enough. So I thought about putting White-Out on the hair so I could see the distribution. No White-Out in my desk. A-ha! But I have lot’s of paperclips!! Below are pictures of what I did. It worked well and provided I nice tactile stop and aural click at the ends of the stroke.

I bought this Turbo Tune from Bob Gollihur’s store. It’s a great accessory!

I recently had a student ask me if he was good enough for a specific ensemble he saw on television. I said no and he was sort of crushed. So I explained my response.

“It’s not that you couldn’t do it, but on your current path you’re not going to make it. However, you can always change

that path – that’s the great part! You can always hop on a new road. But that new road will require more practice, lessons, etc.”

That really helped to change the tone of, “No, you can’t do it.”

I posted some pictures of my clamp mute in use over at Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog.