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I do want to note one thing here. When you see them say 'basses' in relation to production or numbers of them, it usually means Cellos. Even in the Hill book on Strad they refer to Cellos as Basses and we all know that Strad never made any Double Basses. The Bass we play is decribed in most books as Double Bass, Contrabass or what ever the name would be in that region. If you see Violins, Violas, Cellos and Basses, then, the word 'basses' refers to our d.basses. Without the name Cello in the sentence, basses probably means cellos. The double Bass was always the least important instrument in string instrument manufacturing. Many of the shops that made D.basses in the last 200 years specialised in them.
In two of my books by Jalovec, German/Austrian and Bohemian/Moravian makers, I have gone thru cover to cover marking down the names of makers Listed as making double basses or contrabasses. They are very few by comparison. Even the same writer used these two separate names in writing his books. Maybe the d.bass was a translation version of the German book while the Bohemian book is c.bass.
So, read carefully if this subject interests you and it should shed some light on why so many basses look the same that were imported and often we have no clue you really made or worked on them, regardless of the label.
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