Owen Lee demos a 420 year old Gasparo Da Salo bass 

Josh Moss thank you!

The responsiveness is second to none...it is 10 times more responsive than my violin...as soon as the bow touches the string it speaks

Thank you so much!

No kidding...phenomenal...i could listen to you just play the G string all day.

Cameron Hood thank you very much!!!

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I though the same thing about the cello sound!

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Thank you Daniel!

Thank you for watching, I’m so glad you enjoyed it!

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Thank you for commenting, I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

Correction - He plays beautifully and with a great deal of soul...

Thank you Craig!

Thank you very much Andre! You are too kind.

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@@OwenLeeBass Welcome sir.

Thank you for watching!

Feels like almost any other bass, but the tone is especially warm and sweet!

Santi Cruz I haven’t had that opportunity. Good idea though!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Bel Canto.

Picco bow thank you!

Thomastik Bel Canto, I believe.

NostalgiaKarl K.F. I love that oddball look!

It's wide

My thoughts exactly. The C-bouts looks quite small for it's size

Bel Canto strings.

So all the other da Salo, such as www.aco.com.au/blog/post/our-new-double-bass, are fake too? So all the 6 string Violon that da Salo converted to double bass are fake, as they are not 3 string?

at the end of 16th century, the double bass was born in Italy as an original instrument directly built on the violin family logic and technology, mostly with three strings, and later adapted with four; astonishingly powerful and with deep and "brutal" sound, compared to the violone da gamba, already existing. Nowaday, when finding ancient or very old basses, is possible to find every sort of rebuilt or modified instruments. The habit of transforming old violone into doublebass is relatively recent, such as the necessity of making violins more steady and powerful than old models. I can't say how many basses or violones made Gasparo da Salò, but are many copies of the one owned by Dragonetti, very old and, we can say now, ancient copies. Honestly i don't think that more than two or three instruments of such mass can survive more than 400 years, and it is true that the market is many times completely out of reality, especially the market of ancient bowed instruments. I am not an expertise, i do not know the depth of violin market, and i really do not care, but for basses is a story apart, they were less than other instruments, too large to carry comfotably even now, fragile and often owned by theatres, schools, churches just like the organs; see, for instance, the story of spanish pear-shaped basses. All this does not throw away any beaty and value to the sound of these basses, that are amazing and heavily restored. I personally use a superb new bass that can face easily a 300 years old bass, so my question is: where feticism ends and where begins a rational consideration of facts? Obviously, as i said, with ancient (or so presumed) basses is even more difficult to answer.

@@michelemancusi1408 In your first comment you say this is a fake instrument, then in the next you say you don't really have a clue. You're a waste of hot air.

thegroovee fuck off. That thing sounds tits.!