Pfretzschner & Morelli

[Ken Smith]

The Gears are very nice old German work, not French but French style. The Bass is a bit Wilfer-like but looks like it could be Herrmann as well who made Basses for the US importer that Labeled it here in USA. They bought basses and later labeled them in USA. I have seen a few like this but not many. The date was added by the distributor as well. The same one that sold and labeled all of the Pfretschner basses. Some of them got Morelli labels as well. I have seen identical basses with either label.

On your bass, the whole neck/Scroll thing it fine being it is in the German-shop class and not handmade pedigree class. It would cost a bit more to have done the graft and repair. The finish looks fine as well. Probably as good or better than the original and old enough now not to matter,

You have two nice basses there. I spoke with Paul just a few minutes ago as well on some other unrelated business.