Kolstein Music

Antonio Botti Bass Violin

Name: Antonio Botti Bass Violin
Brand: Kolstein Music
SKU: B2347
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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.