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08-16-2005, 01:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Sweden | | | Benedict lang 1920?
I`m in contact with a guy who has a carved Benedict Lang Bass that he wants to sell for 4000 USD. I did a google-search and found some basses made in the 50s-90s but none as old as 1920.
Any information about Lang? Quality?
Thanks!
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08-16-2005, 01:57 PM
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Owner: Ken Smith Basses, Ltd. | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Perkasie, PA USA | |  Benedict Lang
The Henley book has very little on him but there are books that focus on just the German School. I don't have that. I have "Worked in Mittenwald, 1925. Specialist in making Double Basses.
Elgar just says "this Century". No dates given. Commercial business so many possibilities. |
08-18-2005, 04:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: NYC, USA | | | I have a carved Lang bass - it is one of those typically Mittenwald-ish shop basses, though I think it is quite nice. It has been estimated to be from mid-century, I do not think Lang was making basses back as far as the '20s, though I could be wrong.
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08-18-2005, 04:27 PM
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Owner: Ken Smith Basses, Ltd. | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Perkasie, PA USA | | Lang Family
After Benedict Lang, the business was taken over by Rudolf Lang. I quoted Henley already from 1925. Is that not good enough for you or do you think the book is wrong? |
08-19-2005, 06:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: NYC, USA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by KSB - Ken Smith After Benedict Lang, the business was taken over by Rudolf Lang. I quoted Henley already from 1925. Is that not good enough for you or do you think the book is wrong? | Well, there's this (the complete entry from Elgar) Quote: |
Worked at Mittenwald this century. Also Rudolph Lang who is currently working in Mittenwald. Commercial business making basses of many types, three -quarter size, shoulders sloping similar to the French pear model. Outside linings. Makes a great many plywood basses, but the fine hand made instruments are splendid specimens and whilst still new, not so attractive in tone as they will be later when matured.
| Elgar was writing that in 1967. It's possible the OP concerns a Lang labeled bass from the '20s. But since I have one, I'm always on the lookout for other Langs out of curiousity sake - the vast majority I've come across are more recent. But I think we agree the most important thing is the bass itself, not the vintage?
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08-19-2005, 09:33 AM
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Owner: Ken Smith Basses, Ltd. | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Perkasie, PA USA | | Elgar
Elgar is a Comic Book in comparison to the Henley Dictonary. That is a well known fact within the Violin/Bass industry. Lang became a Commercial business and made many Basses. The older, better German Basses usually stayed abroad. It is mainly the lower grade Commercial Basses that were made for export from Germany. A few finer Basses made it here from Wilfer, Poellmann, Lang, Pfretzchner Etc. but the vast Majority of them were not high quality Basses. |
08-19-2005, 09:55 AM
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Ideal Music | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: New York City | | | Benedikt Lang
I have a hybrid Lang - I'll guess that its from the late 1970's early 1980's. |
08-19-2005, 04:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Sweden | | I did not buy the bass. It was in a realy bad shape and sounded like crap, i bought an other bass instead. See my other thread  |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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