TIJUANATIJUANA — Andrés Martín, a double bass player with the Baja California Orchestra, always wished that music would take him places. That dream is about to become a reality — literally. The Buenos ...

A second bass might be in his near future. Once Zadinsky finds a buyer for his old instrument, the one that got him through lessons growing up in Seattle and five years at the Curtis Institute of ...

Susan Wulff and Evona Wascinski were born in Sacramento and Szczecin, Poland, respectively, and came to their music careers in markedly different ways. But the two are quick to agree that mastering ...

The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a transposing instrument and is ...

It is hard to imagine the double bass — the lowest-pitched member of the violin family that resembles a string instrument on steroids — setting the tone for the Sufi song ‘Dama dam mast kalandar’, but ...