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Originally Posted by John Romey
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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I just saw an old 5er made by Benedikt Lang I, who worked in the Schonbach area c.1920. This is not B.Lang II from Mittenwald but might be related. It looks typical turn of the century German/Czech and was made originally as a 5-string. Not quite 1840-50 but old enough to be settled by now.