Franco Petracchi
Illustration — Franco Petracchi, 1972 Franco Petracchi (born September, 1937) is an Italian double bass soloist and teacher. He is a native of Pistoia, Tuscany, and the author of Simplified Higher Technique. In his method, he introduces some conventions to playing in the thumb-position.
Franco Petracchi
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- 1937 · Pistoia.
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- Italy
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- composer · conductor · music educator · double-bassist · musician
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — Franco Petracchi, 1972 Franco Petracchi (born September, 1937) is an Italian double bass soloist and teacher. He is a native of Pistoia, Tuscany, and the author of Simplified Higher Technique. In his method, he introduces some conventions to playing in the thumb-position.
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He uses names chromatic, semi-chromatic and diatonic for different hand positions. He plays a Gaetano Rossi bass, which is unusually large for a soloist.
Italian double bassist and composer Franco Petracchi in his house in Rome
Italian magazine Radiocorriere, n. 30, 1968
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Franco Petracchi born at Pistoia.
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Franco Petracchi is recorded as composer, conductor, music educator, double-bassist and musician.
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