We ship rosin all over the world! Seriously it's pretty cool.
We commissioned a stock model of high-quality, affordable, Brazilian-made Baroque-style bass bows. 
The observer is invited to broaden his horizons and impress the showroom audience with any musical selection besides the most abused bass excerpt in history! The world's only 'No Heldenleben No. 9' sign. You can marvel at it, you can photograph it, but we have the only one! |
The label for the fabled 'Testosteronius' bass. We are typically opposed to mis-labelling, and didn't glue it into the 4/4 unlabelled Chinese workshop bass, but naming the bass sparked a lot of interest.
The 'Fresh Pops'' sign that we display when we receive the latest batch direct from Pops' Products! 
Inlaid fingerboard markers on our rental instruments - no more messy, inaccurate tapes that cause the strings to buzz! We are precisely placing these handmade markers in the fingerboards of all our rental instruments. Another value-added first from QBC.
THE BASS SLANKET: The sofa blanket, with sleeves AND a bass!! For when you are supposed to be playing the bass, but you just can't even. |
A video we made in-house. We know, it's a bit long and slightly corny. But the audio is great!
QBC's precision wood bass endpins, made in-house from the highest grade, custom-turned white oak available, and still at the best prices anywhere. We invested in a mammoth gunsmith's lathe and committed a good amount of real estate in our machine room just to be able to produce the most precise and consistent taper that can be cut into a piece of wood. We innovated, designed, and commissioned the hardened, threaded spike which is available as an option - although our custom part was pirated and has been sold at large. So nice! We appreciate our worldwide client base that looks to us for this custom product.
Pops' rosin in vacuum packaging! Every cake you get from QBC is as fresh as the day it was made! Another first from QBC! |
But wait, there's more!
- 2011: We gave a prize for the best professional-bassist video recording of the Texas All-State bass etudes so students would have a suitable reference for studying the material. The prize went to Jory Herman of San Diego Symphony (now LA Philharmonic)
- 2012: We arranged a Caroling Bass Flash Mob at the bass player statue at the Lyric Center in downtown Houston
Ongoing: we hire high-level bassists, including showcasing advanced college bassists, to make our demonstration videos of basses in the showroom.
- 2011: We gave a prize for the best professional-bassist video recording of the Texas All-State bass etudes so students would have a suitable reference for studying the material. The prize went to Jory Herman of San Diego Symphony (now LA Philharmonic)
- 2012: We arranged a Caroling Bass Flash Mob at the bass player statue at the Lyric Center in downtown Houston
Ongoing: we hire high-level bassists, including showcasing advanced college bassists, to make our demonstration videos of basses in the showroom.
CAT FOUND AFTER GIRL DOESN'T PRACTICE FOR SIX WEEKS
Newswire: Music student Adysyn Landis, 16, of Kingwood, is happily reunited with her cat, Justin, after the pet was missing during the entire six weeks following Region Orchestra tryouts. Upon her mother, Cortnee Landis’ noticing she hadn’t heard Adysyn practicing music for her school’s upcoming holiday concert, the teen opened her bass case and found Justin had been zipped up inside. Sources are still mystified as to how the cat survived over 40 days of captivity inside the bag, but based on the discovery of empty wrappers, speculated the 9-year-old feline sustained himself on a packet of PopTarts and Tajin. “It was a real mess, though”, reports Mrs. Landis. Justin is reportedly avoiding the vicinity of his owner’s bass case and, little the worse for wear, has resumed his customary routine of glaring balefully from the back of the sofa and up-chucking on a neighboring armchair right before company comes over.
Newswire: Music student Adysyn Landis, 16, of Kingwood, is happily reunited with her cat, Justin, after the pet was missing during the entire six weeks following Region Orchestra tryouts. Upon her mother, Cortnee Landis’ noticing she hadn’t heard Adysyn practicing music for her school’s upcoming holiday concert, the teen opened her bass case and found Justin had been zipped up inside. Sources are still mystified as to how the cat survived over 40 days of captivity inside the bag, but based on the discovery of empty wrappers, speculated the 9-year-old feline sustained himself on a packet of PopTarts and Tajin. “It was a real mess, though”, reports Mrs. Landis. Justin is reportedly avoiding the vicinity of his owner’s bass case and, little the worse for wear, has resumed his customary routine of glaring balefully from the back of the sofa and up-chucking on a neighboring armchair right before company comes over.
OLDEST KNOWN CAKE OF ROSIN IDENTIFIED: When a custodian at Lake River Creek Intermediate School dislodged a small, brownish object from the top of the cello rack in the orchestra room last Thursday, she breathed a sigh of relief as she swept it into a dustpan in the hallway. While simultaneously discussing whether to get a new sink or just replace the faucets with her sister-in-law on her cell phone, the concerned employee was quoted as saying "that thing is going to get somebody sick or something". Almost immediately, the object was picked up by a sixth grader and thrown at a girl. The action was witnessed by the school's security officer, who made a huge deal out of clearing the vicinity, recovered the still-unidentified item with a hypoallergenic glove, then marched the petulant young offender to the front office, where school staff engaged in speculation as to whether the mysterious item is a sizable booger, desiccated gravy from the cafeteria, or hashish. Eventually, science teacher Mrs. Zefrin and orchestra teacher Seth Hagan were consulted, Mrs. Zefrin returning the opinion that upon informal examination in her science lab, the object is not a harmful substance, and Mr. Hagan asserting that it had been in the same spot on the cello rack since his employment began in 2011, and to the best of his knowledge, it is violin rosin. Lake Creek River Intermediate School (formerly Lake River Creek Junior High) has undertaken to contact former orchestra teachers and study archival photos of the cello rack, from which it is evident the piece of rosin dates from no later than 1953, pending further investigation.
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Our silly video of a buzz-removing ritual went "viral" (for a double-bass-related video, anyway), and got over 10,000 views on facebook!
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We are not making this up:We make up a lot of things, but this is an actual email we received.
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