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Originally Posted by Elijah Copeland
This a very different scroll. 6 turns and some very unique carving towards the neck. It is also very narrow like Ken's Batchelder. The only other scrolls I've seen with the extra turns are Prescott and some 18th century Italians. What do you think? Yankee?  |
You mean.. Yankee Prescott school.. lol.. ok.. never mind my last post then... swy..
ok, ok.. If you can, take more pictures of the scroll but straight on like on my website, nothing artistic. Just a plain shot all 4 sides. Then, do the same with the body of the bass and show any details that look interesting in a separate picture. 10-20 pictures would help not having the bass in hand to inspect personally.
Remember now, Prescott Basses are not of an original design wholly. Their ideas were taken from mainly German style basses with the Scroll possibly being an English Viol of some sort from what I have read. For only having 3-strings, that's a very unusually long pegbox. Talk about a waste of wood.. English and Italian 3-string Scrolls are usually on the short side. The English carrying the flag on that one more so than the Italians.
I have seen several Italian Scrolls with an extra turn or half turn and this is nothing like that. The Italians are usually slightly shorter pegboxes with larger bold heads. This fits none of that idea in the least.
Many Austrian and Bohemian Basses were made with longer heads as well. Again though, unless you can show everything, guessing what this is would be a waste of time. maybe Yankee, maybe German, Austrian or what have you. Let's see the Bass, all of it!