Thread: Mid 19th century original 5 string?
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Old 04-28-2012, 04:17 PM
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There were a lot of 5 string basses in Vienna/Prague (anywhere the Hapsburg culture went) back in the 18th century. The bottom two strings were generally wrapped gut and the top three raw gut.
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