Double Bass
Object type: Double Bass
Department: Musical Instruments
Culture: Czech
Artist: Johann Ulrich Eberle
Artist bio: Austrian, Vils, Tyrol, 1699–1768 Prague
Artist role: Maker
Artist nationality: Austrian
Date: 1734
Medium: Wood
Dimensions: Total length: 196.6 cm
Body length: 116.2 
String length: 111.5
Upper bouts: 54.5
Middle bouts: 36.6
Lower bouts: 70
Upper ribs: 20.7
Middle ribs: 22.4
Lower ribs: 22
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted
Geography:  Prague   Czech Republic  
Credit line: Purchase, The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, by exchange; Gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Garnett Day, Fred Miller, Mrs. G. C. Glynn and Mr. and Mrs. Jason Berger, in honor of Angna Enters, by exchange; Gifts in memory of June Reid; and Deborah Autorino Gift, 1983
Accession year: 1983