Nearly every sector of the American wind instrument industry has had contact with the "C.G. Conn Company". Charles Girard Conn was an extraordinarily talented entrepreneur who began manufacturing his patented rubber-edged trumpet mouthpiece in 1875 and made it the world's largest manufacturer of wind instruments in 1905.
The cult strings have made a name for themselves among acoustic guitarists thanks to their special balance of playing feel and an unmistakable sound.
In 1919, Bach rented a small room at 204E 85th New York, bought a lathe for $300, and began making one mouthpiece a day between his performances. His most important innovation was to develop a complete series of mouthpieces based on a logical numbering of cup and bore sizes.
Vincent Bach was born in 1890 as Vincenz Schrotenbach in Baden, near Vienna. He grew up in a household in which singing and theatre productions were regular leisure activities. He began taking violin lessons at the age of six. But he soon played truant and finally stopped completely. The reason he gave was: "If I held the bow wrongly, I felt the teacher's heavy cane on my hand.
A very popular form of the ukulele is the guitarlele, since it can be played like a standard guitar. Due to its smaller size it can be transported much more easily, in comparison to a guitar.
With the new GEWA Avantgarde violin case, the popular GEWA Air series takes one step to the next generation: GEWA Air Avantgarde is the most modern companion for every violinist.
All eight of the Il Cannone strings are designed to be mutually compatible. To accompany and to support one another to produce the optimal sound colour from the instrument.
The international Sperger competition for young double bass players was actually supposed to take place this year, but due to the pandemic the organisers changed their plans at short notice. As an alternative, the Sperger Society created an "International Double Bass Quarantine Online Challenge", which was very colourful, creative and generated a lot of joy in making music.
By nature, every human being has a dominant hemisphere and accordingly there are left- and right-handed people. The left hemisphere of the brain is dominant for right-handed people and the right hemisphere for left-handed people.
GEWA Winds had a nice little chat with famous and highly skilled trumpet player and VINCENT BACH artist Morris Northcutt. Learn more about Morris' career and his special relationship to VINCENT BACH!
