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Enjoy this lovely conversation between Mark and Jason Heath of the Contrabass Conversations Podcast.Click the graphic below, or this link, to visit his page and listen to the interview! …

We are deeply saddened to announce that Bob Gollihur, the founder of Gollihur Music (formerly Wordsmith Associates Music) has passed away at the age of 71 on July 20, 2022.Bob has been quite well-known within the bass-playing community for decades. He majored in double bass in college, and played his first paying gig as a union card-carrying 13-year-old in 1963, as seen in the photo to the left (and he continued playing regularly over the years, into his 70s). But he was most widely recogni …

The Eminence Electric Upright Bass has been a favorite product at Gollihur Music for decades; since Bob first discovered the bass we've been very strong supporters of it (and the wonderful Gary and Karen Bartig of G. Edward Lutherie). As one of the few acoustically "true" electric upright basses (EUBs), we've been proud to be the top US dealer for Eminence Basses for many years. The worldwide supply chain issues that have plagued most manufacturing and retail opera …

Time has really flown by. Here's a brief history of how we got here...Back when Bob Gollihur first started selling bass-related items on his website back in 1997, he really didn't know where it was going to go. He had been hosting an upright bass page at his personal Gollihur.com domain for a while. It was mostly just a helpful compendium of interesting upright bass links that he'd discovered in the early, lawless days of the internet (before Google and other high-tech search engines made it so …

This post doesn't really apply to the majority of my customers, who are too far away, geographically, for them to realistically attend a show in Southern New Jersey - but I'm proud to be performing in a theater production of Jason Robert Brown's "Songs for a New World." The show is a theatrical song cycle musical that has truly fabulous music, and I'm wearing a lot of hats during the show. Various numbers have me singing solos, duets, and group numbers, playing upright or electric bass, gu …