{"id":2286,"date":"2021-01-18T00:34:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T22:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?page_id=2286"},"modified":"2021-08-25T11:50:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T09:50:03","slug":"about-this-website","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?page_id=2286","title":{"rendered":"About this website"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DoubleBassGuide has its origin in a website I published in 1994. It started with a collection of informations about pickups and amplifiers for double bass that already have been available back then. I wrote the website’s HTML completely by hand, using selfhtml,<\/a> the HTML editor Pagespinner and Mac OS 9, and later Golive.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot from 2004<\/p><\/div>\n

In the mid-1990s, Internet research was more laborious than it is today. It was before Google was launched in 1997, and there were only a few web forums on the subject of double bass, so my site quickly developed into a central point of contact on the WWW for bassists.<\/p>\n

Soon, I developed the website further. I added a couple of articles that I wrote on double bass’ history, strings, pickups and amplification;\u00a0suggested reading lists with double bass and Jazz related books, and a glossary with double bass related terms in German and English translation as well as biographical informations about double bass makers.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot from 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

In the mid-2000ies, weblog systems like WordPress became popular. Around 2005, I launched the German-language weblog kontrabassblog.de<\/a>\u00a0as a second double bass related website. In the beginning, I had maintained the content of the DoubleBassGuide bilingually in German and English, but that soon became too much work for me, so I separated the two language versions and used WordPress, which was still new at the time, for the German version. At the end of the 2000ies, I also switched the DoubleBassGuide from static HTML to the dynamic WordPress software.<\/p>\n

25 years is a very, very long time for a website. In fact, I have somewhat neglected the content maintenance of the DoubleBassGuide in recent years. One of the reasons for this is that I have transferred the knowledge that I have gathered over the years on the subject of double bass into a book, which was published in 2018: Das Kontrabass-Buch<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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From the digital media back to the analog \u2026 Just as a digital sound sample will never be able to replace the sensual impression of a double bass played live, a high-quality printed book that I can leaf through haptically still offers the greatest reading pleasure to me. Das Kontrabass-Buch<\/em> was published in German in 2018, and the first edition sold out quite quickly. At the end of 2020, the second edition \u2013 revised and expanded up to 240 pages \u2013 was published.
\nIn 2021, the English-language version was published: The Double Bass Book<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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