This mild-mannered Mittenwald Double Bass has its gorgeous evening attire in the back! This Mittenwald is built with a flat back of well-figured Maple hand-varnished to a light-catching luster. Bravo gang! The Mittenwald brings the generous dimensions and rib depth of our Brescian to a gamba-cornered instrument. As with the basses of its namesake, the…
Upton Bass School is in Session!
Upton Bass School brings detailed lessons and insight from our own setup benches directly to you! Our Knowledge Bass is built for every issue great and small, check out a free version of the Upton Bassics care guide, or renew your entire bass setup with our Pro Luthier series!
Ghosts of Prescott Basses Past, Present & Future
We’ve always appreciated the accomplishments of Abraham Prescott and his thriving early 19th Century New England string instrument company. Separated by an ocean from the violinmaking traditions of Europe, his large resonant basses built of native old-growth Sugar Maple have inspired classical and jazz bassists to this day. In this holiday season we can see…
Double Basses with a Restoration Future
Gary has pulled down some basses from the loft which need work but promise to be amazing instruments once tuned back to life! We’ve set the prices to include the full shop restoration, completely redone, down to the last cleat. The finished instruments will be tuned to precision with modern overstand and a complete setup…
Upton Prescott 4/4 Opus 150, The Tiny Martin Prescott
This new Upton double bass is a direct tracing from the Tiny Martin Prescott, a fully-sized Abraham Prescott bass, perhaps one of the last built in the 1840s. That Prescott enjoyed a decades-long career filling Boston Symphony Hall under the bow of Leslie “Tiny” Martin. It exemplifies how a simple ingenious New England double bass…
Upton Santagiuliana Double Bass Opus 239
Another Santagiuliana double bass build! This pattern is becoming a favorite with its early-era Italian long and broad upper bout. Gary selected some of our most breathtaking figured maple for O239, which seems to go on forever throughout the canted back and wide ribs. Just strung with Gary’s Blended set of clear low and flexible…
A Piece of Kay Bass History and Kay Bass Future?
Gary shows off this piece of American bassmaking history in this new video! This form is a piece of Kay Bass history – it was used to build most of the deluxe Kays, blonde S-7s and S-9s. Perhaps your Kay was built on it? If the thought of a new Upton Kay double bass interests…
Parisian Trio – 3 French Double Basses Compared
Gary’s auditions three classic JTL-lineage French double basses from the late 19th Century! These three beautiful late-19th Century French guild double basses are currently available for side-by-side comparison at Upton Bass! Large format J. Thibouville-Lamys (and JTL-related Jacquot) with rounded upper bouts, all are in excellent playing condition and thrive in orchestral or jazz settings.…
New Double Bass Bows from Brazil
We’ve just gotten a beautiful variety of French and German grip Pernambuco bows from the Arcos Brazil collective of bowmakers. New bows going up daily, but here’s a quick selection of several of them with silver or nickel, snakewood and mother-of-pearl accents. We’ve found them to be of excellent quality for this price point –…
The Gary Upton Podcast
Double bass amplification! Gary’s podcast Double Bass & Beyond continues. This fall Gary’s been recording a series where he aims to answer some of your most often-asked-about double bass questions. This week he dives into the topic of amplifying your acoustic bass. If it’s all just being amplified anyway, why not just use a plywood?…
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