Double bass bow
Date1760-1800 ca.
Place MadeThuringia, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsnone
DescriptionThis is one of the few surviving baroque bass bows. It was purchased from an elderly bass player in Eisenach who had been using it.
Stick: round; brown hardwood
Head: swan head; chamfers on back edge slightly rounded with file
Handle: rounded on upper side at frog position; three facets on underside at frog position
Frog: brown-stained pearwood or related species; open, with no slide; rounded back edge; decorative notch at center of throat; decorative molding carved on upper side of lower throat edge; iron eyelet
Adjuster: bone; decoratively turned; cut iron screw; screw emerges from end of adjuster, and is hammered flat over a small copper square
Tip plate: none
Wrapping: none
DimensionsStick length: 700 mm
Head height: about 24 mm at back edge, about 28 mm where stick attains full height
Head width (bottom): 14.0 mm at back edge
Frog height: 22.2 mm at back, 39.0 at front
Frog length (top): 67.1 mm
Frog length (bottom): 89.2 mm
Frog width (top): 9.7 mm at front, 11.2 mm at center, 10.6 mm at back
Frog width (bottom): 13.5 mm at front, 11.9 mm at center, 10.0 mm at back
Weight: 98.1 grams
ProvenancePurchased by National Music Museum in 2002 from Wolfgang Wenke, Eisenach, Germany. It had been acquired by Wenke from an elderly bass player in Eisenach.
Credit LineBoard of Trustees, 2002
Object number10282
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1830-1870 ca.
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1950-1970 ca.