From the archive: double basses by Montagnana, Rocca, Guadagnini and Panormo

These photos were published in the February 1991 issue of The Strad in a focus on the double bass, including a interviews with Barry Guy, and Samuel & Barry Kolstein, a profile of the Ouchard bass bow making workshop, and a tribute to Towry Piper whose 1911 articles for The Strad represent the first serious effort to examine double bass lutherie in its own right.