Have you ever seen a large case as tall as a person standing in the corner of the music room? In your first ensemble practice after joining the club, when a senior plucks the wooden instrument inside, ...

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 ...

I am Shinnosuke Iguchi, a double bass player, instructor, and conductor. I received this question in my note question box.I ...

The Observer film critic’s first passion was music. In this extract from his new memoir he reveals why slapping the strings till his fingers bled was worth it Mark Kermode: ‘There’s magic in going ...