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08-07-2010, 11:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Cleveland, Ohio | | | Mittenwald circa 1900's
Hello:
I found this 1900s Mittenwald in desperate need of love this summer. I had it restored completely (top removed and made the body completely healthly, then setup for Viennese Tuning. Had a copy of a classical bridge made, tailpiece and endpin made to match the beautiful rosewood fingerboard, installed the frets, gut tailgut, and a new higher nut to raise the strings above the frets.
Thought I'd share some photos with everyone 
I'm VERY happy with her. She looks great and plays like a dream.
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08-07-2010, 11:30 AM
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08-07-2010, 11:30 AM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | Nice- and please pardon my ignorance; I'm 99% plankist- what is *Viennese* tuning?
Also, were there *frets* originally, and how common is this practice on DB?
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08-07-2010, 11:31 AM
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08-07-2010, 11:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Cleveland, Ohio | | | Viennese Tuning is F A D F# A - I'm missing the bottom string though.
Frets were often used on basses up through classical Vienna. This comes from the hybrid origins of a double bass from the gamba family and violin family.
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08-07-2010, 11:35 AM
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08-07-2010, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by beingbecoming Viennese Tuning is F A D F# A - I'm missing the bottom string though.
Frets were often used on basses up through classical Vienna. This comes from the hybrid origins of a double bass from the gamba family and violin family. | Nice work. Now, why did you choose to have frets and Viennese tuning?
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08-07-2010, 03:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Sudbury,ON/Ottawa, ON Canada | | | That is one of the most fabulous things I've seen here. what was involved, aside from the change of nut and bridge grooves for the string change, in setting it up for viennese tuning? any sort of structural difference?
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08-07-2010, 03:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London, Ontario | | | Wow, great restoration. Are you planning to play in a period Classical ensemble or do Dittersdorf/Vanhal, etc. concertos with it or...? |
08-07-2010, 03:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Cleveland, Ohio | | | mostly the classical bridge, frets, tailpiece endpin, tailgut and nut was the setup.
I do a lot of performance practice and historical research. I'm working on Dittersdorf #2 for my first VT experiment. Learning a lot still though. I also plan on doing some chamber music and orchestral stuff too.....
thanks!
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08-07-2010, 05:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Did that bass come from Boston? If it's the instrument I'm thinking of, great score.
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08-07-2010, 05:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Cleveland, Ohio | | | Nope! This one came from Philly - I picked up the one from Boston too! It is currently getting restored!
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08-07-2010, 08:19 PM
| | Registered User | | | | | You're a lucky cat.
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08-07-2010, 10:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Cleveland, Ohio | | | I know - I saw that boston bass, woke up the next morning at 4 am drove 6 hours and bought it.... it needs a lot of work though...
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08-07-2010, 10:14 PM
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Luthier: Bresque Basses, rep: Paulin EUB | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | Is that bridge one of a kind?
Hats off to the person who did the restoration work. Who was it? |
08-07-2010, 10:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Cleveland, Ohio | | | A few people did work for me on this instrument.
Mike Griffen did the amazing job making this bridge from scratch. I had a tracing from Oskar Kappelmeyer of a bridge he owns circa 1800's. so not one of a kind but a "copy" of a classical bass bridge for sure
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