Franco Petracchi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Franco Petracchi

Italian musician

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1937

Place of Birth: Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy

Profession: composer, conductor, music pedagogue

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Franco Petracchi (born September, 1937) is an Italian double bass soloist and teacher.
He is a native of Pistoia and the author of Simplified Higher Technique.
In his method, he introduces some conventions to playing in the thumb-position.
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.