Master luthier Mario Lamarre, the maker of my 2018 bass, has updated his website with photos and information about it! I’ve been nothing but pleased with the instrument since I picked it up from his studio in Montreal a year and a half ago. The instrument is based on the same model as his 2009 “Vitruvian Man”, but with slightly deeper ribs at the lower bout to increase the interior volume, and a four-string neck with completely removable (no screws involved!) B extension (~31 hertz).

We took this bass on tour with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in the spring of 2019, and it performed beautifully on its first outing across the pond. The bass can be heard particularly well in the bass solo in Vivier’s Lonely Child, timestamp 15:35 of the first track in the recording embedded below (a concert from Copenhagen with the NACO). My dear friend Joel Quarrington is playing it here, and for the entire tour, as his bass was too large to fit in our flight trunks!