Simba meets Mufasa (The Bohemian Lion)

[Ken Smith]

Just brought back the Lion with Extension and full set-up. Now it needs to played. I will post pics in a few days.

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

Just brought back the Lion with Extension and full set-up. Now it needs to played. I will post pics in a few days.

Yesterday we updated the page with all new pics of the Bass showing the Extension that was just added.

I will probably play this Bass all next week instead of the Hart. The week after that I have a Pit job (West Side Story) at a High School so I will most likely play the Kreutzer with a pickup on it and keep the old Lion and Hart in the rack side by side where they will be safe.

I played the old Lion last night at an Orchestra rehearsal with 5 basses and the player to my right commented how much sound it put out. He has seen me there with several different basses in the past and this was the first time he said anything about my bass.

[Brian Gencarelli]

Looks great Ken! Nice work on the extension, Arnold!

[Eric Swanson]

Lovely work!

[Ken Smith]

At first I thought the Bass was German from the Saxon-Bohemian region. Then I was led to believe a possible connection with the Tirol with Stainer/Klotz influence in the making. Then, I emailed someone with knowledge of period instruments from the Austro-German Tirol region and was told this in part;

"The bass you have, however, has no resemblance whatsoever with either Stainer or Kloz or their schools".

Another dealer that I have known for decades thought originally that this was from the Dresden area of Germany which is the capitol of Saxony. So, after looking at many basses including one that was remotely similar to mine, I have re-attributed the bass back to the Saxon/Bohemian school.

[Ken Smith]

Can anyone make out either of these two Labels? Anything on them? Any thoughts on the style of script? Country, period?

[Eric Hochberg]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

Can anyone make out either of these two Labels? Anything on them? Any thoughts on the style of script? Country, period?

John Flucher(n) or Stucher(n) ?? I'm sure you got that far yourself...