This links page began in 1996 as a list of double bass resources pulled from my personal bookmarks, to share them with other players. The page changes and grows on almost a daily basis due to new discoveries and submissions. There are a ton of "Electric Bass Links" pages out there, so I've narrowed my entries to those that appeal to the Double Bass side of the world. Please jot me a note at bob@gollihur.com if you find broken links, have a comment, and I will appreciate it if you will tell me of any Double Bass-oriented site omission. If it's your own page, a reciprocal link would be appreciated; I'll be delighted to add links to personal pages where the upright predominates under the Players section. Please note that we are in the midst of moving the all the links to a database system that I've paid to have written, that will make it much easier to maintain (since I code it by hand now). Thanks and enjoy!

I appreciate it if you consider these items, whose sales support the existence and continuing updates to the Double Bass Links Site. Click any image to open up a new page with detailed information.

THANKS! to Double Bassist Magazine for their interview and photo of yours truly, along with some fine articles on Double Bass and the Internet, and the later article on musicians' injuries and sidebar outlining my experiences. Thanks also to Bass Player Magazine for their mention of this web site. Welcome fellow readers and electric bassists!! Grab up an upright bass and come over to the dark side!!

FREE Double Bass Screen Saver: The Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 Double Bass Screen Saver I created is available for download. ZDNet Downloads rated it FIVE STARS and there has been well over 35,000 downloads over the past several years!! It is available free by clicking on this link. The highly-configurable screen saver includes twenty-five photos of sixteenth century and modern instruments, vintage advertisements and magazine covers, new basses being carved, and more, optionally accompanied by five different Simandl etudes. Please note (Jan 2007) that it usually works in XP, though I have had reports of failure in some XP installations. To my knowledge it has not been tested in Vista -- I suspect this could be the end of the road for this screen saver unless I can find a reasonably priced engine to recompile a more contemporary version. Bob Gollihur's Double Bass Screen Saver is FREE for your enjoyment. Enjoy!

Please add a link to this resource on your web page! Click here to open a page with HTML code you can copy into your web page that will put this logo on your page. It's my pleasure to share my links with you -- tell others about this page.

This site has been available at both http://www.urbbob.com as well as the original site at http://www.gollihur.com/kkbass. Effective October 1, 2007 we have consolidated our presence to GollihurMusic.com where the links are now displayed.

The growing Double Bass Luthier Directory was moved from the bottom of this page to its own, separate page, to lessen the load time of this page. This list is a great resource not only for repairs, but new and used instruments. Please read about the project and contribute information about your favorite luthier so others can find him or her!

Enjoy! - Bob
last updated December 8, 2007

Please note that all the Gollihur Music pages have been moved from urbbob.com and gollihur.com to GollihurMusic.com as we migrate to that new site. Visitors to those former URLs will automatically be forwarded to the new, permanent home, at www.gollihurmusic.com/basslink.cfm. We are in the midst of reauthenticating, updating, and entering all this data into a new system that will be far easier for me to monitor and update, so it can be done daily. thanks, Bob

• Arto's String Calculator (requires java-enabled browser)
• Changing Strings, Bass Player Magazine article by David Gage
• Making Gut Strings, by Daniel Larson
• String thread color ID Chart on the Quinn Violins site
• Just Strings, online source for strings for many instruments
• Quinn Violins Please visit and buy from Quinn Violins by accessing it through this link; pricing is the same, and sales help support this page. Thanks!
• AquilaUSA, gut strings of all kinds
• Damian Dlugolecki - String Maker; handmade gut strings
• D'Addario
• Concord Music Supplies
• Gamut Musical Strings (gut) (Larson)
• LaBella
• Pirastro
• Picato
• Pyramid
• Savarez (Corelli)
• Super-Sensitive
• Thomastik-Infeld
• Velvet Strings
• String Tension resource from 2xbass list members
• Double Bass String Tensions from Jordan Kirkness
• Strings article by David Gage

• Alexander Technique; play with less tension
• Earplugs - if you're playing loud, protect your hearing!
• Fibromyalgia Network- have more than hand/wrist pain?? Welcome to my world
• HandWorld - Information for patients with hand problems
• Musicians and Injuries, excellent resource of information, books, tapes, videos, and links
• Overuse Injuries (from Johnson String Instrument)
• Repetitive Injuries Continue to Plague Musicians.. By: Dr. Tim Jameson
• Medical Issues for Performers
• Musicians and Injuries
• Westone Labs ear protection

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• Bass Clef Strings
• BassLinks.com, mostly electric, some URB
• Contrabass Page (many in Japanese)
• Bassists in the Doghouse, some Japanese
• ClassicWeb
• Musicians' Intellectual Law & Resources Links

• Acoustic Image, Double Bass amps, combos,
  • (I am Acoustic Image's largest dealer- click this line or the image for information and pricing)
• Audio Electric Research, acoustic amps (Germany)
• Barrio CONTRABAJO- music or art?
• Computer Double Bass Wallpaper
• Concert Design, Basso Performance Chair (stool)
• Bass Box, a bass thumb piano
• Bass Balalaika
• Bass Bags
• C Extension Bass Capo, for fingered C extensions
• Bass Clef images
• Bass Jokes
• Bassmobile Do-It-Yourself Bass cart by Jules Siegel
• Blue Heron Bass Cases
• Bulletproof BASS Works, polycarbonate bridges
• Casa Musicale Caldarice Bass Cases (Italy)
• Clarion Musical Instrument Insurance
• Colorado Case Company (custom)
• Concert Design - Stools for Bassists
• Cosi Fly, composite bass trunk (France)
• Cygnet Studios; unique Bass t-shirt
• The Double Bass, a play by Patrick Süskind
• de Contrabas (the Double Bass), a play being staged in The Netherlands
• Double Bass Screen Saver (free) I made myself- 25 photos, Simandl Etudes, Over 25,000 downloads so far!
• Double Trolley combined stool and wheels
• Euphonic Audio, excellent cabinets and amps for URB and more
  • I own their speakers and amps
    and am now a dealer for EA- great stuff! Click here for more photos and info
• Gaines Bass Wheel I carry these great wheels, click here for details
• HED Insurance Group (Canada)
• Heftone Lojo, sorta bass banjo?
• Hevos, bass cabs and amps (Netherlands)
• Jean Doyle " Double Bass Player " Bronze; no comment
• Joella C-Extension
• 'Jo Bass, the banjo bass
• Jewelry, Bass Clef, by Jessica Felix
• Garrison String Bass Banjo
• Gollihur Bass Bag, available from your host
• Lathon Basswear, hats, shirts and stuff
• Merz-Huber Co., Insurance Brokers Discounts for ISB members.
• Messina Covers Bass Bag
• Mooradian soft cases
• Music Stand Plus, for wide scores
• Pendennis, Mandobass
• Free Staff Manuscript Paper
• Black Sheet Music.net, free from your printer
• RakTrap rack case compartments; love mine for storing cords and preamps in my SKB
• Recording Bass (and strings)
• Reed Kotler Music, digital devices to help music transcription and for isolating parts in recorded music
• Reunion Blues Bass Bags
• Rocsoc Drummers' Thrones, tympani model recommended for URB
• Petz Rosin
• Sabine "Postive Feedback" online booklet, first section "The Story of Feedback" especially helpful
• Soundwear.com Bass Bags
• SBS Flight Cases from the String Bass Shop
• Stevenson Fibreglass Bass Cases (UK)
• The Bass Buggy, Stand 'n Stool (NM)
• Wild About Music (in case you need a little bass with a clock in its belly)
• Gates Distributing Company, for a Double Bass t-shirt, apron, or other goodie
• UglyBassPlayer.com - cool bass clef hats
• VistaPrint Business Cards - 250 FREE and in color! Of course you have to pay around $5 for shipping, but at that price who cares?
• (Martello) Wedge Bridge

• Dr. Evermor's Salvage Sculpture Exhibit
• Max Murray's Museum of Bass Artifacts
  Found these sites looking for bass artwork. If you find something cool, let me know where! Email Bob

Please send your link suggestions, comments, or broken link reports to bob@gollihur.com
This indicates the link did not work the last time we checked, and is "on probation" for deletion.

• Double Bassists Hall of Fame
• Solo Bass Network, electric and double bass
• John Adams, Jazz artist and educator from Texas
• Urban Åhdén, Steamin' Jesaja
• Frédéric Alarie - contrebassiste
• Albey
• Ben Allison. composer-in-residence of the Jazz Composers Collective in New York City
• Jay Anderson
• Steve Anderson
• Bill Andrews, Woodbass Home Page
• Dave Antonow
• Janne Anttonen of the Housewreckers
• Rob Anzellotti
• Steve Arié
• Mike Arnold
• Elvis Ash, of the rockabilly band Lazy Crazies
• Nico Assumpção
• Ovidiu Badilla
• Lance "Romance" Bakemeyer
• Tom Baldwin
• Dick Ball
• Thierry Barbé, Paris Opera Orchestra
• The Bass Gang, four bass ensemble (Italy)
• Bass'in, Trio de Contrebasses
• Bass Moderno Duo
• Bassiona Amorosa, Das Besndere Streich Quartett
• BASStiality, four basses in concert
• Philip Baumgarten
• Ed Bennett
• Andreas Barsøe Bennetzen
• Bill Bentgen
• Frode Berg
• Dan Berkowitz
• Udo Betz
• Massimo Biolcati
• Alisdair MacRae Birch
• Nello Blangiforti
• Andrew Blickenderfer
• Christian Boeger
• Steve Boisen
• Neal Bowen
• Brian Bromberg
• Mimi Boothby
• Erik Borst
• Giovanni Bottesini
• Kevin Brandon, aka Brandino
• Thomas Brændstrup
• Paul Bresciani, Principal Bassist, Buffalo Philharmonic
• Igor Boranian
• Eric Brochard
• Andrew Brown
• Phil Brown
• Dwyght Bryan
• Martin Brunsden
• Chris Brusa
• Simon Burnham
• Ciro Daniel Buono
• Craig Butterfield
• Corrado Canonici, soloist
• Jeffrey Carswell
• Ron Carter
• Michael Case
• Adam Cohen
• Dino Contenti
• Nikolas Chelly
• F. Vattel Cherry
• Vattel Cherry's Bassrespänse (group)
• David Chevan, Bassologist
• Mike Childree
• Hsiao-wei Cho, Assistant principal doublebassist of National Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan. Her homepage, in Chinese or English, with info on Gary Karr, Harmon Lewis, and more.
• Circus Bassissimus Kontrabaßquartett
• Kim Ciara
• John Clayton
• William G. Clifton, Principal Bassist, Omaha Symphony
• Avishai Cohen
• Todd Coolman
• Niels Cremer
• Scott Crothers
• Mickey D
• Palle Danielsson
• Edvard Nyholm Debess, from the Faroe Islands
• Yves Descloux
• Mark Deutsch & the Bazantar, a five string bass w/29 sympathetic and 4 drone strings
• Kevin Deitz
• Thomas Dirks
• Chris Minh Doky
• Leon Lee Dorsey
• Bill Douglass
• Prof. Henrique Autran Dourado
• Andrew Downing
• Jason Downing
• Mike Downes
• Domenico Dragonetti (1763-1846)
• Pat E. Duke of the "Fishnet Stockings"
• Dominic Duval
• Arni Egilsson
• Audun Ellingsen
• Tim Emmons
• Simon H. Fell
• Jim Ferguson
• Jonathan Fisher
• Chris Fitzgerald
• Phil Flanigan
• John P. Flores
• Manny Flores
• Michael Formanek
• Ashley Frampton
• Frank of the Flying Lures' (rockabilly)
• Philip Fried
• Henry Franklin, "The Skipper"
• Ed Friedland, Bass Player magazine columnist
• David Friesen
• Boguslaw Furtok
• Sylvain Gagnon
• Diana Gannett, Professor, University of Iowa
• Renaud Garcia-Fons
• Bruce Gertz
• Dwayne Glanton in The Grandpas
• Barry Green
• Dale (Gold), principal double bassist of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
• John Goldsby
• René Gosselin, bassist for Quartango
• Bluegrasser Steve Gouge and the Home of the Flaming Woodie Bass
• Jeroen Groenendijk
• Liam Graham
• Roland Guerin
• Barry John Guy (UK)
• Marc Hackelboerger and his unique mode of bass transportation
• Charlie Haden
• Mark Harris
• Bill Harrison
• Teppo Hauta-aho
• Henk Haverhoek
• Aristazabal Hawkes
• Jason Heath
• Mark Helias
• Thomas Helton
• Bruce Henry
• Eric Herve
• David Heyes
• Matt Hill
• Milt Hinton
• Eric Hochberg
• Dave Holland, plus a newer Dave Holland site
• Todd Homer
• Jaromir Honzak
• Duncan Hopkins
• Preston Hubbard
• David Hudson
• Jay Hungerford
• Peter Ind
• Chuck Israels
• Chubby Jackson and a second site
• Stafford James
• Jan Jankeje
• Jazz Corner, several bassists
• Jens Jefsen
• Gordon Johnson
• Marc Johnson
• Nicole Jones
• Jason Joyner
• Gary Karr, solo doublebassist, and his bio, books, videos, t-shirts, etc.
• Doug Kelly
• Tom Kennedy
• Mike Kiely
• H Merritt Kinsey
• Pawel Knapik
• Per Dalsgaard Knudsen
• William Koehler
• Max Koteen
• Kristen Korb
• Julee Kramer
• Viktor Krauss
• Peter J Krynen
• Scott LaFaro tribute page
• Andrea Lamacchia
• David Landoni
• Adam Lane
• Ninn Langel
• Artie Langston
• Arjen Leendertz
• Libero Lanzilotta
• Louis-Antoine Lassonde
• Peter Leerdam
• Dave Les
• Jay Leonhart
• Joe Lewis, San Bei Ji: Bass Blog
• Antonio Licusati
• Terry Lilley
• Vito Domenico Liuzzi
• Chris Lough
• Marcos Machado
• Andres Martin
• Kip Martin Rene Mayr
• Christian McBride
• Randy McCluskey
• David McKinney
• John Menegon
• Hernán Merlo
• Don Messina
• Edgar Meyer
• Robert Meyer, his reminiscensces
• Antonio Miguel
• Andrew R. Miller
• Jim Miller
• Mike Milligan
• The Real Mingus Web (Charlie, of course)
• Charles Mingus (unofficial)
• Laurence Mollerup
• Michael Montgomery
• Bob Moore, named #1 Country Bassist of all time by Life magazine
• Joseph Patrick Moore
• Toni Moretti
• Bill Moring
• Michael Moxley
• Max Murray
• Patrick Neher, University of Arizona
• Buell Neidlinger
• Gerald Newson
• Raymond Newton
• Bob Nieske
• Daniel Nix
• Patrick O'Hara
• Roberto Occhipinti
• Kazuo Okuda, principal DoubleBass at Century Orchestra Osaka
• Eivind Opsvik
• Volkan Orhon
• Outer Bass (ensemble)
• Tony Overwater
• Rob Oxoby
• Phil Palombi
• Marco Panascia
• Nicholas Pap
• Matthew Parrish
• John Patitucci
• Chaplain Patrick, a bluegrasser
• Richard Patrick
• Jimmi Roger Pedersen
• Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
• Roman Pekar
• Multi-instrumentalist (bassist) Joel Pelletier
• Mark Peterson
• Franco Petracchi
• Mark Eric Peterson
• Oscar Pettiford tribute site
• Doug Phillips
• Bill Plummer
• Mike Pope
• Ramon Pooser
• Thomas Powell
• Pete Pritchard
• Joel Quarrington
• François Rabbath (Rabbath fingering method)
• François Rabbath
• Reuben Radding
• Gabriele Ragghianti
• Missy Raines
• Craig Rasband, with lots of links
• Hervé Rémond
• Rufus Reid
• Gerd Reinke
• Vitold Rek
• Larry Rich
• Hervé Remond
• Kelly Roberti
• Wayne Roberts
• Hugh Robertson-Payne
• Rick Robinson, CutTime Players
• Gabriel Robles
• Lee Rocker
• Lee Rocker's official site
• Steve Rodby
• Robert Rohe
• David Rosin
• Michael Ross
• Mark Rubin (Bad Livers and Rubinchik's Orkestyr), Slap Bass Video
• Misha Sakharov
• Gregory Sarchet (Bass Club Chicago)
• Michael Savino
• Pete Scalzo, Barefoot Pete - "Have bow...will travel"
• Nikki Scarlett
• Anthony Scelba
• Johannes Schaedlich
• Mini Schulz
• Stefano Sciascia
• Ron Seguin
• Dominic Seldis
• Stefano Senni
• Phillip W. Serna
• David Sheets
• Bartosz Sikorski
• Kelly Sill
• Richard Simon
• Patrick Sintès, with some audio files
• Len Skeat
• Jasper Slotboom
• Ms. Ayano Sohtome
• Joe Spinelli
• Christoph Sprenger
• Bob Stata
• Djordje Stijepovic
• Mike Stockstill
• Donovan Stokes
• Jeremy Stratton
• Hans Sturm, Ball State U faculty, symphony principal bassist
• Bill Stuve
• Erling Sunnarvik, Oslo Philharmonic
• Harvie S (the Artist Formerly Known as Harvie Swartz)
• Jim Tavaré, comedian and double bass player
• Sander Tekelenburg
• Branko Teuwen
• Jon Thorne
• Rob Thorsen
• Paul Tkachenko, MySpace
• Silvio Dalla Torre
• Vladimir Torres
• Alfredo Trebbi, bassist/author, Contrebbisso
• Nick Tsiavos
• M.P. Tumynski
• Uncle Ray (Uncle Ray's Bass)
• Yoshihiro Utsumi, playing his 6/4 bass part of Sciascia Ensemble Japan, with bass MP3 files and his movies/photos page and YouTube page
• Hein Van de Geyn
• Roma Vayspapir
• Mads Vinding
• Miroslav Vitous
• Jens Volk
• Allan von Schenkel
• P. Kellach Waddle
• Tex Waggoner
• Frank Walboomers, rockabilly player
• Sean Walsh
• Ian Webber, The Bottesini Duo
• James Whiton
• Buster Williams
• Lawrence Wolfe
• Robert William Wong
• The Bassists - Clifton Swanson, Ed Harris, Ken Hustad, Jeff Norwood
• Basso! Basso! Double Bass Duo/Ensemble
• Un'Ottava Sottosopra (An Octave Upsidedown), orchestral bass quartet
• The University of Texas at Austin Double Bass Studio
• Ricardo Vasconcellos
• James Young
• Tiziano Zanotti
• Alessandro Zolo
• Bob Gollihur, your host (who?)

• Bass Player Magazine, while electric-oriented, has had much more double bass content of late.
• Bassics, mostly electric, but some URB
• Double Bassist (UK)
• The Strad, classical strings with occasional bass content
• Strings Magazine (some URB content)