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Originally Posted by Mark Plummer
Ken, Thanks for the input. Is it possible that a Wifler/Juzek would have come with a Pfretzschner label?
The label reads
Reproduction of Antonio Stradavarius 172?
Made By GA Pfretzschner
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No, they don't come here with any labels at all except maybe origin like made in Germany or a real Wilfer Label on the better ones. The importer labels them here. No foreign made domestic product is labeled in English unless it is made for export to USA or UK but in most cases, they come unlabeled and the dealer/importer places the label inside the Bass, not the shop in Germany.
Repo. of Strad? Really? Like which Bass that Strad made is it a Repo of? ZIP!! Strad did not make ANY Double Basses at all, EVER! It is a Repo only of the last German Bass made the week before and nothing more.
I have a beautiful English bass from 1814 from a period when they were just starting to copy Strad as Stainer and Amati were still the known Kings. My Bass is a copy of a Strad Cello and with the exception on the slight shoulder cut of c.1870, it looks like a Strad Cello! If it is a copy of Strad, it would look like
This!
The only part that is copied on these German basses from Strad is that they are made of wood, the have strings and they make some kind of sound. Other then that, there is nothing in the make or design of the Bass that is taken from Strad other than the spelling of his name.