Maker & Restorer of Violins, Violas, Cellos & Double Basses.

Double Basses For Sale

 

I have been making and restoring orchestral string instruments for over 40 years. I started making cellos and 'progressed' to violas. In the mid nineteen eighties whilst working with Roger Dawson in Rotherhithe, London I added double basses to  my luthier/maker repertoire.  My English double basses are after the great London luthiers of the early 19th Century, the likes of Kennedy, Fendt, Lott and Hart. Production, if it can be called that is limited to two or three instruments a year as my work as a repairer and restorer keeps me occupied. Details of Martyn Bailey double basses for sale can be found by clicking on the link below. Custom instruments, copies, 5 string and left handed versions can be made to order, please contact me for details.

 

I have added Jay Haide double basses to the  range I offer as they provide a good sounding, nicely made and an attractive instrument priced neatly between the lease expensive instruments on the market and my own. For further details on the Jay Haide double basses please click on the link below.

Also in stock is a fine Hungarian double bass by Akos Balazs, Gold Series English model detail of which can be found by clicking on the link below.

 

Please contact me to make an appointment should you wish to try out any of these  instruments. More new double basses will be available for sale  soon.

 

Jay Haide  Double Basses

 

Martyn J Bailey Luthier Ltd offers these attractive and well made double basses that have been set up to exacting standards.

Martyn Bailey English Double Basses

 

This double bass has been made by hand by Martyn J Bailey luthier in the best of the English tradition.

Hungarian Double Bass by Akos Balazs

 

 

New Hungarian double bass

 

 

Fine handmade English double basses by Martyn J Bailey Luthier for sale.

 

Martyn Bailey with one of his own  basses

Fabien Sevilla wrote 21 months after buying this particular bass-

 

'The bass  sounds amazing--it is a pure delight!'