Aria (Music For Acoustic Guitar And Double Bass) - Bobo Ferra & Paolino Dall Porta

It's a Double Bass daddio!

Advantages: They're beautiful.
Disadvantages: You'll cry if you have to sell it.

It's difficult to buy a double bass in the simple way you might buy a good quality electric guitar or electric bass . For a guitar you can sort of decide if you're Fender, Gibson, Gretsch etc type of person by seeing what you're favourite players use on the telly and then trying them out in any good guitar store. But for the double bass we're in different territory all together and different rules apply. If you try out the bass in a store or room that is stuffed with other double basses or even other wooden acoustic instruments its going to resonate a little in each of those instruments and lead you into believing you have a lovely sounding bass when you probably haven't. Some spaces can make an unamplified double bass sound great. I like to play mine on the lower landing of my stairwell - always sounded beautiful there. If you ...

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Review of Double Bass

The Double Bass. A very very big instrument!

Advantages: Great fun
Disadvantages: Very large to store and transport

, literally in a container on a boat) and arrive with the neck not joined to the body and the bridge not fitted as these are the most fragile parts and could be damaged during shipping. Fortunately there is a local guitar repair man who also does work for the music shop so he put it together for me and put the strings on. A set of Dominant strings (which is one of the better makes) will cost about £120. By contrast I have just bought some Dominant strings for my daughter?s ¾ size violin and they cost about £25. A reasonable quality double bass can be bought from about £500 and there is no upper figure. This is not perhaps the first instrument I would recommend for a child to learn, apart from anything else it is not easy to get it on the school bus and it takes a very large corner of the room to store. If they want something different from ...

perfectlypolished 09.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Double Bass

THE best electro acoustic guitar!

Advantages: Sound, build, playability
Disadvantages: Rounded back can be awkward at first.

If you have read some of my other guitar reviews, you will know im a bit of a collector of guitars. In fact, you could almost say its an obsession. Therfore no collection would be complete without an axe from one of the world's finest and best known acoustic producers. Ovation. I own the Ovation Celebrity Deluxe which i believe is the finest looking in the Ovation range. However, you will also know that from my other reviews, Im left handed with the guitar which narrows your choice in colour. For a Right hander, the choices include, Black, Natural, Wine, Green and a sunburst effect top and also available in vasious mapel finishes. Im afraid to say my only choice was Black. Still it does look rather fetching and contrasts well with the Marquetry effect leaves around the multiple sound holes. Being an Ovation, it does come ...

andycharger 31.10.2007 · Read full review
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