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Here's why buying your bass gear at Gollihur Music is different (better!) I'm very aware that there are plenty of musical instrument stores, particularly online, where you can spend your bass dollars. If you have a local mom-and-pop music shop, I don't mind losing your business to them; we should support our local "bricks and mortar" stores whenever possible. But for those upright bass items you can only easily find online, we work hard to always be your first place to shop.Recently, as I was as …

It's a weird quirk that is unique to the upright bass, but "Full Size Bass" is a bit of a misnomer. Every other stringed instrument (and a selection of other instruments, as well) consider 4/4 size to be the full-size, common instruments for adult players. Most have "downsized" (aka "fractional") instruments that are generally used for younger students, with their smaller limbs, and players generally are expected to graduate to the full-size instrument when their hands and arms grow larger. But …

If anyone asks, I'm a bass player, through and through. That being said, I've spent much of my time playing other instruments as well. Mom was a school music teacher and a pianist, so we always had a piano in the house growing up. When the school started kids on band instruments in 4th grade, like a surprising number of bassists (in my experience) I picked up the trumpet; later, I moved on to playing Mellophone and French Horn in high school. I also own a home studio where I record mostly ori …

While we stock a host of 2-channel preamplifier solutions for bassists who double (with every bell and whistle imaginable), sometimes simplicity takes the cake. I personally like using a Radial Engineering PZ-Pro for my upright (and electric, thanks to its switchable input impedance) needs, and while it's a full-featured, flexible unit (even has microphone capability!) it might be more than you need for a simplified stage rig. An A-B box like The BigShot i/o Deluxe A/B Switch provides a simp …

This pandemic has certainly put a major dent in a huge number of our usual options for playing live over the last year or so. Now, with many states and cities starting to relax some of the restrictions, I hope that this means you'll have some renewed opportunities to make music publicly - and safely - once again. But since most of us have been "out of it" for a while, it might be helpful to refocus ourselves with some "resolutions" (kind of like a belated New Year's Resolution list) moving forwa …