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Martin Hiensch,
contrabajo
photo: Trio Tincho/Jonathan Richter |
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Martin started his musical career
playing electric bass guitar in several rock bands, during the
first half of the ninetees of the past century. Then in 1994,
one year before the great Argentinian composer and musician
Osvaldo Pugliese died, Martin saw a documentary on tv, in which
this very Pugliese and his Orquesta Típica were followed.
It was an eye opener for Martin, he fell in love with this type
of music instantaneously and he started collecting cd’s
with the remastered recordings of several tango orchestras from
the 1930’s en 40’s (the so-called golden era of
tango in Buenos Aires).
In 1995 Martin, after all being a bass player, decided to buy
a double bass. He found a friend who was going to Germany and
asked him to look for a not too expensive yet reasonable double
bass. Indeed the friend came back from Leipzig with a bass in
his car.
Martin took lessons with Luc van Gestel, a Belgian bass player
who also played, amongst others, with Carel Kraayenhof in Tango
Cuatro and in Sexteto Canyengue.
After having played tango for some years, Martin decided to
buy a better instrument, also because his first bass might collapse,
due to a construction fault. He is now playing a bigger and
better double bass. Mark and type unknown, but probably originating
from Hungary or Rumania. |
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