{"id":2022,"date":"2015-09-10T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uptonbass.com\/?page_id=2022"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:43:34","slug":"upton-bass-concord-upright-bass","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uptonbass.com\/instruments\/the-upton-bass-double-basses\/upton-bass-concord-upright-bass\/","title":{"rendered":"The Concord Model Upton Double Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The name Abraham Prescott is to double bassists what Stradivari is to violinists.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Prescott double basses and viols, mostly those built early in the 19th Century in New Hampshire, have been owned and performed on by some of the most celebrated bassists in the world, Scott LaFaro, Arvel Shaw, Tiny Martin and Lawrence Wolff to name a few. Large proportioned with deep arching and thin tops, Prescotts boast bass tones that have moved rooms and concert halls since they were built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Fantasia” Concord<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Fuller” Concord<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Murray” Concord<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Abraham Prescott was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire in the late 18th century and made his first bass in 1819. Together with his apprentices, he built over 200 upright basses and many more “church basses,” cellos, violins, and even keyboards and wooden pipe organs. Abraham began his own apprenticeship in his uncle’s woodworking shop, and was self-taught on viol construction by working on his own violin. He soon was building viols for local churches and musicians. These early “Deerfield” Prescott’s show quite a bit of individuality from instrument to instrument as the young maker improved at his craft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After making hundreds of upright basses in our Connecticut shop and working on, restoring and selling dozens of Prescotts, a thought occurred to us – why haven’t we made a version like this and why are we just now realizing it?<\/em> How could we be New England makers without making a classic throw-back New England double bass?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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