One of the things I know that Peter would do during their jams — and they did a fair amount of jamming — is he would give his roadie his Les Paul, and he would pick up a six-string bass.

Fitting fresh bass strings can be a real treat: you realize what your bass guitar was missing out on and the top-end frequencies return, meaning your tone control once again has a purpose!

There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put together, and they are very often at the heart of the music. The double bass is the biggest string instrument in the ...