This report sets out the present situation with regard to teaching and learning the double bass, describes steps already being taken to improve the situation, and proposes further advances. The report is aimed principally at chief education officers, music advisers, headteachers, music staff in schools; at those who run youth orchestras or music centres or music courses, or administer and teach in our music colleges. But we also hope it will find its way to parents, and finally serve to stimulate rather more young people and students to embrace this Cinderella among the instruments.

‘A wide ground is covered, pithily and pointedly … well illustrated and excellently produced; one trusts educational authorities will act on its suggestions, although it should be emphasised that the appeal of this book is much wider than such a comment might infer.’ Music and Musicians

‘… with illustrations that are clear and often humorous… All in all this slim volume presents an exciting picture of what could be … could initiate a global revolution in the standard of playing of this neglected instrument.’ The Strad