THE CATALOGUE
Violones
Violone in A after Richard Meares ca. 1660
This especial model is scaled up from the Meares 6 string bass viol. It could be used in all gut D tuning as a consort bass. It is an ideal instrument for 8 ft bass lines. Gibbons wrote 14 pieces where you’ll need a “dooble bass”. This is the instrument for those pieces.
String length
800 mm
Corpus length
783 mm
Corpus width
Up 365 mm / Mid 263 mm / Low 433 mm
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Violone in G after Ernst Busch ca. 1640
The model is ideal in G tuning. It fits well also for rapid passages, since the string is only 89 cm long. The corpus is too small to use the low D tuning.
String length
890 mm
Corpus length
1540 mm
Corpus width
Up 440 mm / Mid 300 mm / Low 505 mm
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