Bass Identification

[Ken Smith]

This is gong way off topic but, what jazz players from the 20s had old Italian or French basses? Most of them had German and Czech basses. Very few did not.

If you bow at all, you know that the tip and the frog hits the bass now and then. When I see a bass with clean edges, I am suspicious of its age.

Many of the better Jazz Players were also classically trained and learned with a Bow as well.