{"id":2292,"date":"2021-01-18T00:40:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T22:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?page_id=2292"},"modified":"2021-08-25T11:48:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T09:48:59","slug":"the-double-bass-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?page_id=2292","title":{"rendered":"The Double Bass Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

400 years of low notes \u2013 The double bass: It\u2019s history, important makers, and bassists in classical music and jazz.\u00a0Written by Jonas Lohse.<\/em><\/h3>\n

About this book<\/h2>\n

Hardcover, 240 pages, four-color printing throughout. 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.<\/p>\n

www.Lohse-Verlag.de<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Table of contents<\/h2>\n
    \n
  • The history of the double bass at a glance\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The history of the double bass\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Tunings<\/li>\n
  • Shapes<\/li>\n
  • Sizes<\/li>\n
  • Tonewoods<\/li>\n
  • Bows<\/li>\n
  • Electric Upright Bass (EUB)<\/li>\n
  • On the road with the double bass<\/li>\n
  • The double bass and its parts (in four languages)<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Range of the double bass, the notes on the piano keyboard\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Lutherie<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Craft and industrial stringed instrument making<\/li>\n
  • Factory made violins from Germany<\/li>\n
  • Germany as a developing country<\/li>\n
  • Quality as competitive advantage<\/li>\n
  • The 20th century<\/li>\n
  • Labeling fraud<\/li>\n
  • American-made plywood basses<\/li>\n
  • Strings\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Rosin<\/li>\n
  • Important bassists<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Johann Matthias Sperger<\/li>\n
  • Domenico Dragonetti<\/li>\n
  • V\u00e1clav House (Wenzel Hause)<\/li>\n
  • Giovanni Bottesini<\/li>\n
  • Franz Simandl<\/li>\n
  • Serge Alexandrovich Koussevitzky<\/li>\n
  • The double bass in Jazz<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Bowing, plucking or slapping?<\/li>\n
  • \u00a0<\/span>1930\u20131940: The Swing era<\/li>\n
  • 1940\u20131950: The Bebop revolution<\/li>\n
  • Jazz Jam Sessions\u2014breeding grounds of bebop<\/li>\n
  • Formative bassists<\/li>\n
  • Red Mitchell about the bass scene of the 1950ies<\/li>\n
  • 1950\u20131960: Modern Jazz<\/li>\n
  • Formative bassists<\/li>\n
  • 1960\u20131970: Free Jazz and Avantgarde<\/li>\n
  • Formative bassists<\/li>\n
  • 1970: The electrification of Jazz<\/li>\n
  • Technological Backlash<\/li>\n
  • Bassists and the Cello in Jazz<\/li>\n
  • Bassists in the Jazz polls<\/li>\n
  • Jazz Bass Timeline\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n
  • The Double Bass in Jazz at a glance<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Electrical amplification of the double bass\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Microphones<\/li>\n
  • Piezos<\/li>\n
  • Magnetic pickups<\/li>\n
  • The development of pickups<\/li>\n
  • Phase cancellation for pickups<\/li>\n
  • Do-it-yourself pickups<\/li>\n
  • Amplifier and speakers<\/li>\n
  • Impedance<\/li>\n
  • Tone controls and filters<\/li>\n
  • Feedback<\/li>\n
  • Digital signal processing<\/li>\n
  • Setup und sound optimization\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • The fingerboard<\/li>\n
  • The bridge<\/li>\n
  • The nut<\/li>\n
  • The soundpost<\/li>\n
  • Where does the soundpost go?<\/li>\n
  • Cutting a new soundpost<\/li>\n
  • The Tailpiece<\/li>\n
  • The Saddle<\/li>\n
  • The Endpin<\/li>\n
  • Climate<\/li>\n
  • Sharp tools<\/li>\n
  • Glues<\/li>\n
  • Sound improvement from the laboratory<\/li>\n
  • Chladnian sound figures<\/li>\n
  • Mode Matching<\/li>\n
  • Vibration dedampening<\/li>\n
  • Wolf tones<\/li>\n
  • The acquisition of a double bass<\/li>\n
  • How does the bass sound?<\/li>\n
  • Prices yesterday and today<\/li>\n
  • Instrument Portraits<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Gasparo da Sal\u00f2<\/li>\n
  • Giovanni Paolo Maggini<\/li>\n
  • Hans Christoph Z\u00e4ncker<\/li>\n
  • Peeter Borlon<\/li>\n
  • Johann Joseph Stadlmann<\/li>\n
  • Matteo Gofriller<\/li>\n
  • Domenico Montagnana<\/li>\n
  • Domenico Busan<\/li>\n
  • Giovanni Battista Ceruti<\/li>\n
  • Giuseppe Baldantoni<\/li>\n
  • John Frederick Lott<\/li>\n
  • Hawkes & Son<\/li>\n
  • J. T. Lamy<\/li>\n
  • The \u201cKarr-Koussevitzky\u201d bass<\/li>\n
  • Bass making in Mittenwald<\/li>\n
  • Bass making in the Saxon\/West Bohemian region<\/li>\n
  • Bass making at Bubenreuth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    400 years of low notes \u2013 The double bass: It\u2019s history, important makers, and bassists in classical music and jazz.\u00a0Written by Jonas Lohse. About this book Hardcover, 240 pages, four-color printing throughout. The many photos and illustrations allow for a deep look into the world of the double bass and transform this book into a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2292\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}