double bass
double bass
Local name: basy (basses)Classification: 3 Chordophones / 32 Composite chordophones / 321 Lutes / 321.3 Handle lutes / 321.32 Necked lutes / 321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars / 321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitars sounded by bowing with a bow
Maker: Unknown
Date: ca 1890
Village / Town: Zadowice
Region: Greater Poland
Country: Poland
Owner: Museum of Folk Musical Instruments in Szydłowiec
Inventory number: MS/S/50
Description: narrow body and ribs carved from one piece of wood; back plat flat, top lightly convex; scroll marked only with a carving into a flat pegbox, one of bridge’s feet longer, going through an opening in the top plate and resting on the back plate, functioning as a soundpost; fingerboard and tailpiece flat; scroll slightly outlined; f-holes without crosswise cuts; two strings; flat fingerboard
Measurements: 1080 x 287 x 60 mm
Materials: wood, metal
Sound compass, tuning: in 5th, d – a
Performance practice: a common component of folk bands
Catalog card by: Maria Gangi / Zbigniew J. Przerembski
Oberek from Zadowice; The Band from Zadowice: Franciszek Hofman (b. 1916, Kąpie), violin, Franciszek Radyszewski (b. 1920, Zadowice), double bass, Roman Szmaj (b. 1922, Godziesze Małe), drum; rec. Poznań, 1975; Sources of Polish Folk Music
Polka from Kalisz; The Band from Zadowice: Franciszek Hofman (b. 1916, Kąpie), violin, Franciszek Radyszewski (b. 1920, Zadowice), double bass, Roman Szmaj (b. 1922, Godziesze Małe), drum; rec. Poznań, 1975; Sources of Polish Folk Music
double bass (PME/1/KZ); rec. Museum of Sound
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