Gasparo Bertolotti 'da Salò', Brescia, date unknown, the 'Dragonetti'
Bass: 42956
Photo courtesy of Thomas & George Martin, Violin Makers and with kind permission of the Procuratoria di San Marco. To be featured as part of the forthcoming publication, 'The Italian Double Bass' by Thomas & George Martin.
Top: double-purfled
Scroll: by Giovanni Battista Bodio
Length of back: 114.3 cm
Upper bouts: 55.45 cm
Middle bouts: 42.65 cm
Lower bouts: 68.6 cm
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Notes:
"The widely set soundholes suggest that Gasparo intended a six-string instrument, though the 'Dragonetti' now bears a replacement head that Dragonetti commissioned from the Venetian violin maker Giovanni Battista Bodio in about 1824."Liutai in Brescia: 1520-1724, Eric Blot, Liutai in Brescia: 1520-1724, Cremona
One of the instruments exhibited in Brescia in June, 2007 at the "Gio Paolo Maggini Secoli di dettagli" exhibition.
Gio: Paolo Maggini in Brescia (exhibition catalog), Gio: Paolo Maggini in Brescia (exhibition catalog), Brescia
Displayed in the Basilica di San Marco Museo
Provenance
| Chapel of St Marco | |
| until 1846 | Domenico Dragonetti |
| from 1846 | Chapel of St Marco |
Known players
Domenico Dragonetti
Certificates & Documents
- Dendrochronology report: John C. Topham, Surrey (2013) Dating the youngest tree ring to 1530.
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References
Basilica di San Marco Museum- Domenico Dragonetti
Gasparo da Salò, A. M. Mucchi, Editore Ulrico Hoepli, Milan (illustrated)- Gio: Paolo Maggini in Brescia (exhibition catalog), nuovesettimanebaroche, Brescia (illustrated)
- Liutai in Brescia: 1520-1724, Eric Blot, Eric Blot Edizioni, Cremona (illustrated)
- Looking at the Double Bass, Raymond Elgar, Stephen W. Fillo, Princeton (illustrated)
- More About the Double Bass, Raymond Elgar, Raymond Elgar, Sussex (illustrated)