Coda to The Setup & Repair of the Double Bass for Optimum Sound

From the Prologue by Chuck Traeger:
About the title, the dictionary definition of the word coda is:
music; A: a concluding passage, the function of which is to bring a composition to a cogent and well-proportioned close.

My wife, June, suggested this title because that is exactly what I am doing here. This booklet is the conclusion of my research and my writing. It is not that there is no more to be done. It is that at eighty three I am running out of the time to do it.

From the back cover: Chuck Traeger has continued his research into what makes a double bass sound and play at its maximum potential with this CODA to his magnum opus, The Setup and Repair of the Double Bass for Optimum Sound.

Contained herein are new sound setup discoveries and repair tips. The book also features pictures of ten signed instruments by name makers, photographed by Bill Merchant.

Author Chuck Traeger is an artist bassist and expert repairer who operated a top professional bass shop in New York City for many years. He was the principal author, with David Brownell and Bill Merchant, of The Setup & Repair of the Double Bass for Optimum Sound.

In the 40s and 50s he performed with the who's who of jazz in NYC - Sidney Bechet, Marian McPartland, Bunk Johnson, Bob Wilber, Eddie Condon, etc.

He later became a highly respected bass repairman in New York City with clients from the NY Philharmonic to Ron Carter. He is now retired in upstate New York with June, his wife of over fifty years.