This little 1/2 size db

[Calvin Marks]

Originally Posted by Pino Cazzaniga

I agree. The same for the tailpiece. I still hope to find a 3 gut strings player, but they are not so many... we'll see

I'm a period player myself, so I'd love to have a string bass for the works of Dragonetti and Bottesini but that instrument is far too small for my liking. It seems like it should suit a child or very small person quite nicely!

[Pino Cazzaniga]

Ken,
Thanks for your guess, it matches my feeling... somewhere, sometime, not for the first nor for the last time.
Thanks for the forum too, wide knowledge and friendly atmosphere.

Jake,
I like the sound, it's deep and ready, but I have to work on twangly notes of the g string, lower positions.
It'now strung with Spirocore.
As Al Smith ask in my intro thread I looked at the French? German? DB.
I didn't post there cause I can't say more, other than it look very nice, of course.

Calvin,
Gut strings Bottesini is only for the braves, it deserve bigger (and greater) instruments.
My think was European old folk music, 3 naked gut strings, G d g or A d g tuning.