Summary: Donovan and I dug into a bunch of gear-related questions that I’d been wanting to ask him, like: • why Donovan plays on bows that weigh 240 grams • how his bass is tuned and how he thinks about pitches on it • the unique spin on the Marvin tailpiece that Donovan uses • when he started to use the Labor-style endpin • how he still plays traditional 4-string tuning for rockabilly gigs • the influence of heavy metal in his compositions
