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Originally Posted by Adrian Levi
Apologies - my post should have been under a different heading !
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Ok, I moved it here to modern handmade basses.
On the maker making basses, who knows who has made a bass and wasn't listed as such. Many of them. Many!
On the bass and label being a match? Maybe. The design in the back might be from the maker or not. Special orders happen often with small volume makers. He is also listed as being a good repair man as well.
I have a modern Italian bass (labeled) as well here in my shop with from 1959 by Enricus Averna in Panormus, Sicily. The book says Palermo, the Italian name for the same city named by the ancient Greeks. The bass I have looks more Italian than Eastern Europe. Remember, that by the mid 20th century, the Eastern Europeans had learned already the desirable shape and sized of a Double Bass that the Italians probably perfected. I also have one bass and have seen 2 others of the same maker from Hungary, Mihaly Remenyi and they look like NOTHING Italian. These basses from over 100 years ago look more Viennese style than anything Italian. News traveled slow in the old days as did progress.