Buch in englischer Sprache.
The many photos and illustrations allow for a deep look into the world of the double bass and transform this book into a captivating and entertaining lecture for every bassist and music lover.
German version: Item-No. 950008.
Author: Jonas Lohse.
Translation: Martin Wind.
Hardcover, 240 pages, four-color printing.
Jonas Lohse Verlag 9783982260211.
Table of contents:
- Forewords 4
- The history of the Double Bass at a glance 9
- The history of the Double Bass 17
- Tunings 23
- Shapes 26
- Sizes 29
- Tonewoods 34
- Bows 42
- Electric Upright Bass (EUB) 50
- On the road with the double bass 54
- The double bass and its parts (in four languages) 58
- Range of the double bass, the notes on the piano keyboard 60
- Lutherie 61
- Craft and industrial stringed instrument making 62
- Factory made violins from Germany 62
- Germany as a developing country 64
- Quality as competitive advantage 67
- The 20th century 69
- Labeling fraud 83
- American-made plywood basses 86
- Strings 93
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Rosin 100
- Important bassists 101
- Johann Matthias Sperger *1750 1812 102
- Domenico Dragonetti *1763 1846 103
- Václav House (Wenzel Hause) *1764 1847 104
- Giovanni Bottesini *1821 1889 104
- Franz Simandl *1840 1912 105
- Serge Alexandrovich Koussevitzky *1874 1951 106
- The Double Bass in Jazz 107
- Bowing, plucking or slapping? 109
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19301940: The Swing era 11019401950: The Bebop revolution 111
- Jazz Jam Sessionsbreeding grounds of bebop 113
- Red Mitchell about the bass scene of the 1950ies 119
- 19501960: Modern Jazz 120
- Free Jazz and Avantgarde 121
- 1970: The electrification of Jazz 123
- Technological Backlash 124
- Bassists and the Cello in Jazz 125
- Bassists in the Jazz polls 127
- Jazz Bass Timeline 129
- Electrical amplification of the Double Bass 135
- Microphones 136
- Piezos 137
- Magnetic pickups 138
- The development of pickups 141
- Phase cancellation for pickups 147
- Do-it-yourself pickups 147
- Amplifier and speakers 148
- Impedance 152
- Tone controls and filters 152
- Feedback 153
- Digital signal processing 154
- Setup und sound optimization 155
- The fingerboard 156
- The bridge 160
- The nut 170
- The soundpost 171
- Where does the soundpost go? 176
- Cutting a new soundpost 176
- The Tailpiece 178
- The Saddle 180
- The Endpin 181
- Climate 183
- Sharp tools 184
Glues 185
- Sound improvement from the laboratory 187
- Chladnian sound figures 187
- Mode Matching 187
- Vibration dedampening 188
- Wolf tones 189
- The acquisition of a double bass 191
- How does the bass sound? 196
- Prices yesterday and today 199
- Instrument Portraits 203
- Gasparo da Salò 204
- Giovanni Paolo Maggini 208
- Hans Christoph Zäncker 210
- Peeter Borlon 212
- Johann Joseph Stadlmann 213
- Matteo Gofriller 214
- Domenico Montagnana 216
- Domenico Busan 218
- Giovanni Battista Ceruti 220
- Giuseppe Baldantoni 222
- John Frederick Lott 225
- Hawkes & Son 228
- J. T. Lamy 231
- The Karr-Koussevitzky bass 232
- Bass making in Mittenwald 234
- Bass making in the Saxon/West Bohemian region 235
- Bass making at Bubenreuth 237
- Acknowledgments 238
- About the author 239
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FRANÇAIS
NEDERLANDS