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Title: Double Bass
Maker:
Johann Ulrich Eberle (Austrian, Vils, Tyrol, 1699–1768 Prague)
Date: 1734
Geography: Prague, Czech Republic
Culture: Czech
Medium: Wood
Dimensions:
Total length: 196.6 cm
Body length: 116.2
String length: 111.5
Upper bouts: 54.5
Middle bouts: 36.6
Lower bouts: 70
Upper ribs: 20.7
Middle ribs: 22.4
Lower ribs: 22
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted
Credit Line: Purchase, The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, by exchange; Gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Garnett Day, Fred Miller, Mrs. G. C. Glynn and Mr. and Mrs. Jason Berger, in honor of Angna Enters, by exchange; Gifts in memory of June Reid; and Deborah Autorino Gift, 1983
Accession Number: 1983.130
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