DHV:
1039
Tourin ID:
Violone
Ernst
Busch
# of Strings:
6
Place Made:
D, Nuremberg
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
D, Cologne
Sound Holes:
F
Collection:
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Head:
Scroll
Catalog Number:
Label Text:
Ernst Busch / in Nürnberg [printed]
Measurements:
Body Length:
89.3
String Length:
86.5
Rib Depth:
18.3
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
43
33.5
51.2
Previous Owner:
Information Source:
Martius & Schulze 1991, pp. 176, 181
Literature:
Photographs:
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Martius & Schulze 1991, pp. 176, 181
Martius & Schulze 1991, pp. 151 (inside of back), 175 (F+S)
Converted to 4-string contrabass before 1906, using original neck, lengthened and angled. Restored 1988 with new neck and fittings (fingerboard & tailpiece copied from Nuremberg GNM MI 15 = NURN 9). Table with double purfling, back with single; back and ribs of bird’s-eye maple. Herkunft: aus dem Stuttgarter Raum.