On 11/1/2023 6:37 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
<https://events.williams.edu/event/viennese-bass-lecture-demo-bret-simner/>
Thanks, David. Now I'm really smiling to have learned something new! Your knowledge is more encyclopedic than Wikipedia.
I once mail-ordered a fretted u-bass but exchanged it for the fretless style, which I find easier to play (lighter touch) and more expressive. Intonation can even be better on fretless as the strings can develop nonuniformities in density. Wonder if that's why those fretted basses from the 1770's died out?
Thanks again! Jeff
