Violone

[petiso71]

Does anyone know the violone, a bass of Early Music?

[EggyToast]

Yeah, I hung out with him a couple months ago. Pretty cool dude. Drinks like a fish, though.

Are you looking for playing information, or general background?

[Michael Glynn]

This site has a lot of good information:

www.earlybass.com/

[petiso71]

Thanks, just have the curiousity since I like Early Baroque.

[thewhale]

For a short period violone and contrabass were used interchangeably they were so simlilar.

[drurb]

Did they make plywood violones?

[bassist14]

Originally Posted by drurb

Did they make plywood violones?

of course, don´t you know the early king violones made in germany?

[drurb]

Originally Posted by bassist14

of course, don´t you know the early king violones made in germany?

Oh, I think you mean Kaiser, not King.

[anonymous12251111]

I have a Violone from the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, it was made by Grunert in Germany. It's a good instrument but is not exactly set-up in a period style. John Pringle makes very nice Violones at a more affordable price, but yet, still expensive. I would think it's almost impossible to find a ply-wood violone. There are "inexpensive" asian wood violones on the Internet but they're still 3-5k.

[drurb]

Originally Posted by Calvin Marks

I would think it's almost impossible to find a ply-wood violone.

So would I. I wasn't serious, after all.

[petiso71]

Something like this:

http://www.amherstearlymusic.org/faculty/neely.jpg