The “biggest violin”

Bassist Steve Badach sent me the following photo of a truly enormous bass. I wonder what first position looks like on this thing? Doesn’t look like the octobass to me since there isn’t any sort of fingering contraption for the left hand.

biggest violin.jpg

Click here for a video of an actual octobass in action.

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2 Comments

  1. dirichlet
    dirichlet on November 29, 2010 at 7:19 am

    Mmmm…isn’t the bow’s shadow a little bit strange?

  2. Chris
    Chris on January 13, 2011 at 8:02 am

    Good find! It’s 4 strings too, not like the Octobass’ 3. Maybe it really is “just” a violin??