3-string Double Bass
date: label: Date made
content: 1740 - 1760
notes: label: Description
content: <p>The maker and provenance of this 3-String Double Bass is unknown, possibly made around 1740-1760. It has a six-piece table of pine, back of plain maple in two pieces, ribs of similar maple, grafted maple neck and pegbox attached to a period scroll, hand-forged individual tuning machines in the pegbox, and opaque orange-brown varnish.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This instrument has a reproduction Carcassi label. It is an interesting large bass in violin outline with a flat back is in a very poor state of preservation, retaining elements of original detail and an 18th-century veneered tailpiece. Although tuning machines were known in the 18th century, the machines on this pegbox appear to be of 19th century origin.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This double bass was acquired from the collection of Leopoldo Franciolini in 1892. Leopoldo Franciolini (1844–1920) was an Italian antique dealer who flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is remembered as a fraudster who sold faked and altered historical musical instruments.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Densmore, Frances. Handbook of the Collection of Musical Instruments in the United States National Museum.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.095305
label: accession number
content: 26256
label: catalog number
content: 95305
objectType: label: Object Name
content: double bass
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pine (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 27 in x 74 in; 33.02 cm x 68.58 cm x 187.96 cm