POPLAR BLUFF, MO-- Luke Medley is a master of the Bluegrass bass fiddle. He not only plays them, he makes them too. He's an architect of sorts, still working to design and build the perfect bass ...

Music has been a large part of Bruce Dundas' life, and now he is able to share his experience with a larger audience. The former Midlander published his first book, "Learn Bass Fiddle" earlier this ...

A piece of Central Missouri musical history is now on display at the Missouri State Museum in the State Capitol. Lee Mace's famous bass fiddle now resides at the Missouri State Museum. For more than ...

At age 19, Isaac Rohrbach might be deemed a throwback to the days of old, and not just because he plays an oblong, octagonal upright bass that he made himself to perform in a bluegrass-gospel-country ...

Bass" is often misspelled as base" but the meaning is very similar in music, that of foundation." In early jazz bands, bassists played the bass fiddle, the tuba, or the bass saxophone. The typical ...

Louise Rowe can still swing with the best of ’em, Western style. “I just kind of dance with it while I’m playing,” said Rowe, 82, who struts a stand-up bass with her band, the Texan Playboys. Six ...

A row of fiddlers lined the front of the Central Junior High School orchestra room, all trying desparately to hold on to the notes in their heads. Two boys, one of them barefoot, coolly held the necks ...

A FRIEND of ours who lives on the East Side took us around to his favorite neighborhood bar for a nightcap last week, and there we unexpectedly witnessed a ceremony that is held once a year, the ...