Reinhold Herold Bass

[Don Cox]

Hi Ken, thanks for your reply and thoughts.

No, that listing seems a little overpriced to me - but then, I don't know of the maker or his reputation.

Why I ask is, one of the local Symphony bassists has bought a new bass and has her Reinhold Herold for sale.
It's a decent sounding Bass and appears to be in good shape.
It's somewhat different from the one pictured on the Contrabass Shoppe website.
Different proportions, violin corners, bigger - more of a 7/8 size.
She's asking $17,000.00 Canadian for it.
Since I may be in the market for a Bass I thought it might be worth researching.

The only info I could find on the maker was on the Contrabass Shoppes website and I thought that since there are people on this forum with a ton of reference material, and a lot more knowledge that I, it wouldn't hurt to ask.

Good Basses are hard to come by in this part of the world.
Once in a while the local Bass guru ( Jim Ham ) gets one in for restoration and we all go over and drool on it, but other than that.......