Description
Attributed Early 20th Milanese Bass Violin
3/4 Gamba Shaped, Flatback Model Bass
- Top table is two-piece medium vertical grained spruce
- Back table is two-piece slight figured poplar, with lower bout outer flanks
- Ribs of matching poplar to that of the back table
- Scroll and neck are of a later period of slight figured maple
- The gears are individual brass tuning gears
- Varnish is lush, transparent, reddish brown color with amber hues
- Mint condition; fully restored by Samuel Kolstein & Son, Ltd.
- Overall body length: 43 1/2 in.
- Width across the upper bout: 19 1/2 in.
- Width across the center bout: 15 in.
- Width across the lower bout: 27 1/2 in.
- Mensure (string length): 40 7/8 in.
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