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One of my favorite pieces. The chains are also very good if you liked this one. I believe it is the third chain that is my favorite, but I can't remember off the top of my head. My former teacher wrote his disertation on Lutoslawski so I think that means that I have to like his music by default? :)

Hello, first time posting. I've been lurking around here for a while and have learned a lot. This might be one of the first times I might have something useful to say. :) I am a bass player. As far as double stops go I feel that fifths are the easiest to do, followed by minor thirds and then major. They all are a little hard to do in the lower register (half and first position). They are pretty easy around the third and fourth position but are a real pain around where the neck meets the body up till thumb position (around the B nat. on the D string until past the harmonic). Once you get up to thumb position minor sixths are fairly easy and depending on the players hand size you might be able to write up to a seventh, although I wouldn't recommend it. Octaves are pretty much out of the question unless they involve the open strings (low E,A,D,G) and you can have the basses tune down to a low D on the E string to get a few more notes, just be careful how you would write anything else that would involve the lower strings just to avoid confusion. As far as splitting the bass, that happens a lot. I have played a fair amount of pieces that split the bass section, half arco half pizz. I can't remember the piece but I played in one that had the basses divided into three parts and if I remember correctly the end of one of the movements of Dvoř