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Lot 89
  • 89

Probably by Gasparo da Salo (b Salo, c1540; d 1609) A double bass Brescia, circa 1585

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Gasparo da Salo
  • A double bass

  • unlabelled

  • maple, spruce, ebony
  • Brescia
the head probably by another hand, 17th century

Provenance

The bass was bought by the well-known pedagogue Isiae Bille in the late 1940s and subsequently passed to Frederick Zimmerman.  Since then it has been owned and played by two members of the New York Philharmonic - Luigi Raviola and a Mr. Botti - and then by the principal of the Cleveland Orchestra, David Perlman.  Until recently the bass has been known as the work of Maggini.

Literature

Sold with the certificate of Thomas Martin, Banbury, dated 15th March 2008