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11-15-2009, 03:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark | | | Benedikt Lang bass
Hi Everyone. I've been offered a Benedikt Lang bass very cheap. But i'm not sure of the origin. On the back it says "Benedikt Lang Tornblad". Does anyone knows what "tornblad" is? Thanks!
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11-15-2009, 07:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Chicago | | | The Lang workshop is, or was, located in the Mittenwald part of Germany. They made a number of instruments sold here under the "Juzek" name, along with other makers. Ken Smith believes that Lang made most of the ply basses for Juzek and possible some of the carved models as well.
You could have a very decent bass there but you should probably have it inspected by a bass luthier to determine its condition. You might want to try posting some quality pictures if possible.
I've seen a couple of Lang cellos around here and they were quite decent entry/intermediate level instruments. |
11-15-2009, 08:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark | | | thank you very much.! You would'nt happen to know what the "Tornblad" thing is do you? |
11-15-2009, 09:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Germany | | here is another one (or is it the one you talk about?) http://www.blocket.se/stockholm/Kont....htm?ca=16&w=3
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11-15-2009, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by rolandbas  thank you very much.! You would'nt happen to know what the "Tornblad" thing is do you? | Google translator says "Tornblad Sales" - Tornblad is probably a part of Stockholm, where the bass is... |
11-15-2009, 01:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark | | | i post here a picture of the back where the tornblad thing is written. And the link is the bass i'm considering to buy. Thank you all very much for your help, i really appreciate it! |
11-15-2009, 02:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | A former student of my teacher's had a Lang, sounded nice.
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11-15-2009, 02:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NYC, Astoria | | | I like my Lang quite a bit. |
11-16-2009, 04:27 PM
| | Thomas Andres- Bass Makers | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Northern Virginia | | | I have a very nice B. Lang bass from Mittenwald in my shop for sale . It is well made and sounds great. Elgar, in his book speaks well of the basses. |
11-26-2009, 01:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Copenhagen | | | I like my carved B.Lang from 1985. Deeep sound. Never seen that stamp on any of the Langs, I've come across though..
FWIW, their cellos are quite respected also. |
08-20-2011, 02:27 PM
| | | | Tornblad is a typical but not very common Swedish family name.
The pics are from a Swedish bass repairman's shop repairing two old Benedikt Lang basses at the same time (2001).
One 4/4 and a 3/4.
The repairman had seen many Benedikt Lang basses, but only these two had the name "Tornblad" added.
He has not yet found out who "Tornblad" was.
This 3/4 seemed to be around 100 years old: |
08-20-2011, 02:48 PM
| | | | Benedikt Lang/Tornblad
This 4/4 "Benedikt Lang/Tornblad" looked much older than the 3/4 above.
Benedikt Lang (Mittenwald) was a close friend of the bassmaker family Wilfer (Erlangen). They cooperated and made exactly the same models.
You can't see any difference. |
08-20-2011, 04:49 PM
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Retailer: Shen, Sun, older European | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Burlingame, California | | | I've got a fully carved Benedikt Lang. It's very "Juzek-ian" in character. |
08-20-2011, 06:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sydney Australia | | | Our orchestra, the Sydney Symphony, imported three 5 string basses from Lang in the early 1970's, a 3/4, 7/8 and full size. The timbers were great but the workmanship, sound and varnish were very ordinary. The three stop lengths were 42 1/2", 43 1/2" and nearly 44 1/2". One was used and the other two were "loaned' to other orchestras and never returned. I later contacted Benedikt Lang to have a maple neck graft block sent out. It also had lovely figure.
We used to say what a pity it was to have wasted such good wood on such mediocre instruments.
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