double bass

Classification: 3 Chordophones / 32 Composite chordophones / 321 Lutes / 321.3 Handle lutes / 321.32 Necked lutes / 321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars / 321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitars sounded by bowing with a bow
Maker: Szwedów Rodzina [Szwed family]
Date: before World War I [?]
Village / Town: Pewel Mała
Region: the Carpathian region (Beskid Żywiecki)
Country: Poland
Owner: The Municipal Museum of Żywiec – The Old Castle, Department of Ethnography
Inventory number: MŻ-E/712
Description: instrument modelled on professional cellos; originally with four strings, then remodelled to have three (to resemble the base of Podhale, perhaps in reaction to the popularity of Podhale-style music); renovated by Józef Habdas from Rychwałd in 1965
Decoration: stained brown
Measurements: 950 x 555 x 455 x 320 mm
Materials: wood (spruce, sycamore), catgut (strings)
Inscriptions: inside the body, a label with a stamp bearing an inscription in an oval frame saying: Wyrób Skrzypców, Basów / oraz Stolarstwo / J [?] Szwed w Pewli – małej / Poczta Żywiec (Galicya)
Sound compass, tuning: D, d, A
Performance practice: component of folk bands, probably string ones that played Podhale-style music
Catalog card by: Piotr Żebracki, Karolina Wałęga / Zbigniew Jerzy Przerembski


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