/internal/media/dispatcher/796389/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAmerican bass violabout 1800Benjamin CrehoreLength 128.5 cm, width 47.1 cm (Length 50 9/16 in., width 18 9/16 in.)Maple, pine, ebonyGift of Christopher Bickford1984.790One-piece back of slab-cut maple. Ribs similar. Crude later neck with crude pegbox/scroll grafted on. Two-piece belly (with wings) of wide-grain (or slab-cut?) pine. No purfling. Later tuning pegs, fingerboard, and saddle of ebony. Old tailpiece of ebony with crude inlaid 8-point mother-of-pearl star, raised lozenge-shaped piece of ivory/bone, and ivory/bone strip above string holes. Later, thick dark red-brown varnish, crudely applied. Interior construction: Later hemispherical neck block, but apparently a platform carved from back for original set-up with footed neck. Wide lower block with chamfered corners. Some liners rectangular (later?) and some shaped. Very large corner blocks. Thin bassbar.Musical instruments11.80000000005123601