On the other side of the scroll are the rectangular patches for the previous French worm gear assemblies. But the round patches are big, like they carried wooden hat peg spindles. Probably had several tuners sets over the years.
The south German basses with club necks that I've seen don't look as nicely done as this one. Very narrow purfling. Someone has used 1/4" ebony dowels to 'decorate' the back. The dowels are superficial and don't go all the way through to the neck and endpin blocks - like the decorations around the button on some French basses.
I don't know what's original - there are about ten different styles of cleats here.
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12-03-2009, 12:19 PM
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