Thursday 5 January 2023

BOWING OUT ... GRACEFULLY?

 Look, I'm not a musician. You know that.

I read Richard's latest post where he (once again) has made impossible resolutions for violin and double bass practising this year. Why he does this is hard to understand but there are people who do some strange things with their life. Take Robert. Please.*

Richard talks about fingering and bowing and other odd things but, to me, he doesn't touch on something that I've noticed with double bass soloists and that frankly is quite disturbing.


The weird and scary faces that bassists pull:




What's that about?






* That's an old Vaudeville joke but it still works.