Music for Double Bass by František Hertl and Contemporaries Szymon Mariniak – double bass. Jongsuk Kim – piano Solaire Records SOL1018 Lost Beauty is a wonderful CD on so many different levels – amazingly beautiful and informed performances, informative programme notes and stylishly produced packagi…

Unless you are blessed with perfect pitch, at some point you will need to consider how to accurately tune your instrument. Of course, if you’re a pianist, you just get someone who has been trained to do it for you. Not cheap, but easy! So, there are choices to be made, and there is plenty out there…

Your standard foldable music stand will almost certainly have been your introduction to the world of music stands. Orchestral and conductor stands are the next stage. These tend to be more robust in construction, have a non-folding desk, and are specifically designed for use by players in an orchest…

Whether we like it or not, the double bass will be for ever linked with the large, lumbering and lugubrious elephant – much as the cello is with the elegant swan, or the tuba with Tubby!                   …