German Double Bass
date: label: Date made
content: 1878 - 1882
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This double bass was made by an unknown maker in Germany, around 1878-1882. It is constructed in viol form. This bass has a one-piece table of spruce, a two-piece back of maple with mild, irregular horizontal figure, ribs of similar maple, two scribed lines on table and back in representation of purfling, neck, pegbox and scroll of plain beech with four individual brass tuning mechanisms, and yellow-brown varnish.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>John Howard Foote (1833-1896) was a musical instrument dealer with shops in New York City and Chicago. The 1882 J. Howard Foote musical instrument catalog lists “DOUBLE BASSES. Commonly called Double Bass Viols. German manufacture, with patent, or machine heads: No. 6027 Large Size, 4 stringed, good quality, and good tone, with better patent head. $42.00 each.”</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & 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.072847
label: catalog number
content: 72847
label: accession number
content: 12809
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Double Bass
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: spruce (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 75 in x 25 1/2 in; 40.64 cm x 190.5 cm x 64.77 cm