This musician realised that with the right bow, the Bach Cello Suite No.1 could come to life in a wonderful way on the double bass... Since Bach composed his Cello Suites in the early 1700s, they have ...

Lu Yuanxiong runs classes at music schools in China to bring music and musicians between the US and his homeland. Provided to China Daily As the largest instrument in the string section of an ...

The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a transposing instrument and is ...

When John Edwards plays his double bass, he is extraordinarily engaging. He plucks, tweaks, bows, hits and hums aloud. So engrossed is he that it is difficult to look away. One memorable gig, I ...

George Speed of the TSO shows us how the double bass works and its role in a performance. Violetta "Vi" Vibrato meets George Speed who plays the double bass for Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. Vi ...