Idiodextrous Double Bassists

This site began its life as the home of information about those rare double bassists in the history of jazz who play the instrument ‘back-to-front’. It has since expanded to include players of all string instruments – but discovering these bassists was the original inspiration for the entire project! Those original bassists have their own page on idiodextrous.com.¹

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Click on the names below to read case studies, containing images, video, audio, biographies, anecdotes and other information:

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Bud Loyacano (1879-1960)
Sherwood Mangiapane (1912-1992)
Earl May (1927-2008)
Tony Archer (1938-)
Lyles West (1956-)
Greg Gottlieb (1983-)

Here are links to information about idiodextrous double bassists who don’t have their own page on this site… yet!

Bernard Gallone
George Fulton
Mark Geddes
Stan Saunders

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1. The information on these pages is abridged and the academic referencing has been removed to improve the flow. For the full text including references, you can visit the Research page and download a PDF of the thesis.) ↩︎