Question about Mr. Meyer

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Brandon Tuomikoski

I just saw the great Edgar Meyer in a master class/ concert today.

What an exceptional bassist! Very good.

He was listening to kids solo, and would come up, and without having ever played the song, or even looking at a score of music, start playing parts of the song that the kid needed work on.


I love his bass. What is it? He said something like a Guarini 1740 something I think.

Anyone know where you can find pictures of it? All I saw was a not- so close up of it.


(We got to listen to him perform the bach cello suites too!!!)

If I am not mistaken, I think I have read somewhere that his bass is 'claimed' to have been made by 'Giovanni Battista Gabbrielli'.

From the pictures I have seen, it doesn't look much more than 100 years old but I have never seen the Bass in person. Then again, my Gilkes due to its preservation and fantastic varnish doesn't look its age either but a closer inspection inside tells a different story.