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This song is about my other instrument a 1920's Double Bass. My Father, John Rodenburg rescued the bass after it had been thrown down the stairs at a local high school. With the help of a friend they restored it. I started playing the bass when I was around 11 years old and my teacher Dorothy Rennie learnt to play on the very same instrument. MY father could pretty much turn his hand to anything and I have fond memories of the smell of araldite glue coming from the shed.

STORY OF MY DOUBLE BASS – BY SHIRLEY C
CHORUS – ARALDITE GLUE AND A PINE PACKING CASE , HELPED RESTORE MY DOUBLE BASS
OF GERMAN DESCENT IT WAS BUILT IN THE 20’S THEN SOLD TO THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE
WHERE STUDENTS INCLINED IN THE ORCHESTRA PLAYED AND DEVELOPED SOME MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE.
INITIALS OF STUDENTS WERE CARVED ON THE NECK, EACH WITH THEIR OWN MUSIC ENTITY
DR AND BF CONTINUED TO PLAY, BECOMING WELL KNOWN SOUTHLAND IDENTITIES.
CHORUS – ARALDITE GLUE AND A PINE PACKING CASE , HELPED RESTORE MY DOUBLE BASS
NOW ONE DAY THE BASS TOOK A TRIP DOWN SOME STAIRS, - TWAS PUSHED BY A STROPPY YOUNG STUDENT
IT LANDED ALL SMASHED IN A HEAP ON THE GROUND- BUT THE BRIDGE WAS IN TACT – THAT WAS PRUDENT
BETWEEN DAD AND BOB FRASER DADS BASS PLAYING MATE, THEY RESTORED THE OLD GIRL TO HER GLORY
SWISS PINE FROM MUMS BERNINA SEWING MACHINE CASE- ADDED THEIR BIT TO THE STORY.
THE BASS WAS CALLED GERT AND WAS PLAYED NEAR AND FAR FOR RECORDINGS AND AT LOCAL DANCES
HER RESONANT TONES LEFT A THRILL TO THE BONES – AND INSPIRED SEVERAL ROMANCES.
SHE’S PERFORMED AT MORE VENUES THAN ANDRE RIEU BEEN PLUCKED, BOWED AND PLAYED PIZZICATO
IN ORCHESTRAS, JAZZ BANDS AND EVEN IN CHURCH AND FOR OPERA WHERE THEY SING VIBRATO.

CHORUS – ARALDITE GLUE AND A PINE PACKING CASE , HELPED RESTORE MY DOUBLE BASS