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Double bass

Alternate name(s)
  • String bass
Date1880-1910 ca.
Place MadeMarkneukirchen, Saxony, Germany, Europe
Modelnone
Serial No.none
Signednone
MarkingsWritten in pencil on inside of top: Repaired March 1932 / Carl Jones / Arne Larson / Little Falls, Minnesota
DescriptionTop: two-piece spruce: medium grain broadening to very wide then narrowing again at the edges
Back: two-piece slab-cut maple with faint irregular medium curl; flat with slight break in upper bout
Ribs: plain maple
Head and neck: beech
Varnish: medium brown; shaded
Purfling: double scratched lines
Fingerboard: black-varnished maple
Nut: ebony
Tailpiece: ebony
Tailgut: steel wire; passes through drilled holes in front of tailpiece and bolted
Tuners: four steel machine heads with black-painted maple rollers
Saddle: ebony
Endpin: brown-stained hardwood, possibly oak; with missing extendable pin
Linings: maple
Bassbar: carved from top
Corner blocks: spruce
Top block: integral with neck; extension at joint with back
Bottom block: maple
Other: maple graft along back joint; three spruce lateral braces on back
DimensionsTotal double bass length: 1791 mm
Back length: 1084 mm
Upper bout width: 525 mm
Center bout width: 362 mm
Lower bout width: 647 mm
Upper rib height: 168-199 mm
Center rib height: 193-201 mm
Lower rib height: 197-201 mm
Stop length: 627 mm
Vibrating string length: 1070 mm
Neck length (bottom of nut to ribs): 432 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number02610
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