Today was my 62nd, and these were my presents:
This second one was interesting, because I could go and visit the author\’s shop in Frankfurt to pick up my copy. And once I was there I couldn\’t resist to lay my hands onto some of the instruments they had there, so I briefly played contrabasses ranging from 1500€ to about 12k€ or so. All of them were nice, some were really nice…
The two main brands in case you\’re interested are Christopher (Chinese), and Gasparo (Romanian). And then there\’s the stuff which is a bit more expensive, like the German Wilfer or Stoll ones… but like I wrote above, there are nice ones in each range.
Anyway – thanks for reading, as always.