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Heavy Hands, 40 digits

is a modern string quartet featuring 4 inventive, innovative, versatile, virtuoso young Bass players: Gregg August, Greg Chudzick, Lisa Dowling and Brian Ellingsen. After finding common ground and shared ideas at the Bang on a Can Summer Institute, our goal was obvious - to create a new kind of String Quartet and commission composers who will make a valuable, exciting and lasting contribution to much needed Double bass repertoire, to give our instrument a vehicle for its unique capabilities, and to challenge and educate modern day listeners of concert chamber music.

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Time's flying in the workshop, May is upon us and we already have an impressive list of killer instruments finished up this spring.       

Right now my days are spent working on a wild bass for Eric Revis to tour with. You can catch him with Branford Marsalis this summer!

Eric needs a deep ribbed, jazz cannon with an adjustable/removable neck, and this bass brings together our Travel Bass with our New Brescian model into, as I have affectionately have dubbed it, a "Brescian Lite".

 

Gary adds Facebook posts daily on our bass progress here in the shop as well as our adventures in the creation of a new home for Upton Bass!   Check it out - your feedback is always appreciated.  

 

Drop us a line any time. And remember... the best is yet to come!

 

 

Take everything you love about the Revolution Solo Double Bass Pickup and fully integrate it into the bass bridge and you have the NEW Source Pickup.  Check it out on the website and hear customer and double bassist Peter Maness playing while Gary talks about what makes this new pickup special.