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Old 07-05-2007, 06:33 AM
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Default Bass I.D. help

Anyone any ideas or info please on my old bass.i recently accquired.
Interested to know origin,woods used and value(if any)
I'm pretty sure the top is carved spruce,fingerboard definitely
isn't ebony(so would this mean it was a budget type model?)
Don't know what the back/sides and neck/scroll are made from.
Only thing written inside is a detail of a repair done in Newcastle UK 1960
There's possibly a name/date written on the outside upper bout but it's so small/faded i don't think it's much help.
It's a full size ,but i think maybe narrower body.
It came with a bow that has CZECHOSLOVAKIA printed but i suppose that doesn't help much.
I'm new to the world of double basses have been reading up here what i can,would take an uneducated guess it's a turn of the 20th century German student/budget bass.
Pete
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