Josef Budil

[Anselm Hauke]

Originally Posted by Nathan Levine

Josef Budil (b.1932) seems to have been a real person who worked in Luby for many decades. Studied under Hrib and Pechar and was a double bassist himself according to this scan. The owner of Lemur thinks he may have met him 20 or so years ago while bopping around Eastern Europe looking for basses.

http://www.mtmmusicalinstruments.com/page36.html

Interesting to see the connection Budil - Posta.
Posta played a Grancino very similar to your bass. Maybe this was the bass budil copied.

EDIT: if you do a google picture search for "posta grancino" you can see it on the LP-covers. (I own one of them)
i think the bass was for sale in the US some time ago.
Edit 2: http://www.smithbassforums.com/showthread.php?t=1579

[Nathan Levine]

Originally Posted by Anselm Hauke

Interesting to see the connection Budil - Posta.
Posta played a Grancino very similar to your bass. Maybe this was the bass budil copied.

EDIT: if you do a google picture search for "posta grancino" you can see it on the LP-covers. (I own one of them)
i think the bass was for sale in the US some time ago.
Edit 2: http://www.smithbassforums.com/showthread.php?t=1579

Aha! I hadn't caught that connection in the Budil bio, though I have seen the Posta cover and noticed the vague similarity between his Grancino and my bass. Interesting that Budil might have actually had a real Grancino to copy.

The other one of course for comparisons sake is the Grancino at the Contrabass Shoppe in the UK. Both of theses basses seem to have somewhat narrower upper bouts in proportion to the lower bouts that mine does.