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Originally Posted by Charles Stark
Pino, nice instrument but Maggini never made a five string bass, and there's no record of that tuning anywhere. Add a sixth string and tune it to D and then you've got a D-violone. Maggini made several violones, most notably the "Dolmetch" instrument, but that was tuned in G and had a string length under 95cm. Also, why the Viennese style tailpiece?  ...I thought this instrument had an Italian influence? |
Maggini made some of the later D'Salo instruments. One that is pictured in Elgar (D'Salo, attributed?) is a 5-string, page 71.
We do not know if any of the Amati's made basses and we know for sure that Strad did NOT. However, there are thousand's and thousand's of basses claiming to be copies of both.
At least we know that both Maggini and D'salo made Double Bass instruments.
We can only speculate from the few original Scrolls survived by these two pioneers what they might have made as far as the number of strings.
Maggini 'influenced' is just that. It can have 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 strings if you like. All numbers of strings that were made by the early Italian bass instrument makers.
If one copies an English or Italian or even a Prescott Bass of which almost all were 3-strings originally, do you come and say Prescott didn't make a 4-string?