Guarneri basses

[Calvin Marks]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

Didn't a confirmed Ruggeri sell recently to Toronto for a huge sum? Storioni and his pupil Ceruti also made basses but slightly later. I agree on this that Strad' didn't and the Amati family has yet to produce a confirmed DB. As far as any of the Guarneri members, this I am not certain of. I do know that as far as the larger instruments go, Venice was far more active in Basses (aka V.Cellos) and Double Basses in that period.

That was 2 years ago. Jeff Beecher, the new Principal Bass of the Toronto Symphony bought Peter Lloyd's Ruggieri...What an instrument. You can hear that individual bass from the audience.