Old German French Model

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Arnold Schnitzer

How do you account for the obviously French (and very old) tuners?

Those are NOT original to the Bass. The Bass has several filled in holes around the outer Scroll/Pegbox cheeks from German type gear plates. These tuners were added sometime after 1900 but are not the first tuners that Scroll/Pegbox has seen.

Like I said Maestro, this Bass wants to be French so bad that they even put French tuners on after it was made. Under UV light the Varnish all matches including the Scroll. If you look close at the pictures you will see all the filled holes from the German gear plates that were most likely original to the Bass.