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Kolstein Music

Antonio Botti Bass Violin

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SKU: B2347

Antonio Botti Bass Violin 3/4 Size, Gamba-shaped, Roundback Made in Sassuolo, Italy c. 1852

  • Top table is a four-piece plate of spruce with vertical and slab graining
  • Back table is a two-piece plate of highly figured maple
  • Ribs of burled poplar
  • Original scroll of plain grained poplar with a highly figured maple neck graft
  • Original individual brass gears of Tyrolean type with a pearl dot centered in each gear
  • Varnish is brownish amber
  • This bass was pictured with the late pedagog Fredrick Zimmermann in the preface of the Simandl Bass Method book.
  • Excellent condition
  • Overall body length: 42 in.
  • Width at the upper bout: 18 in.
  • Width at the center bout: 13 7/8 in.
  • Width at the lower bout: 25-1/4 in.
  • Mensure (string length): 40 1/4 in.

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is in our opinion, the work of Giulio Degani, made in Venice, Italy, circa 1910, and is so labeled within.
The instrument is a full size violin. The top table is  a two-piece plate of fine vertical grain spruce.  The back table is a two-piece plate of moderately flamed maple slightly descending from the center joint. The ribs are of matching character to that of the back table.  The neck and scroll are originall of slightly figured maple. The color of the varnish is a deep reddish brown.  The instrument is in mint condition.

OBL: 356 mm

UB: 165 mm

CB: 117 mm

LB: 210 mm