An amazing double bass made of paper  … with 5 strings! Found at www.hxon.net

Back in the early days of the 20th century, the Sears company published mail-order catalogues that offered nearly everything: clothes, shoes, hardware, construction materials, bicycles …  they even started to make their own line of automobiles in 1906. Of course, they also carried all kinds of string instruments and double basses (probably imported from Germany, at this time). Price point: 18.95 USD to 22.85 USD.
You even got a fingerboard chart with every instrument: “It can be firmly gummed to the fingerboard, and in no way interferes with the tone or playing of the instrument.“

More about this newly built Octobass at http://magazine.amati.com, http://nymusikk.no

http://youtu.be/7m2J8LiJ87c

Jazz, dessiné par Cabu (Jean Cabut; 13 January 1938 – 7 January 2015)

www.charliehebdo.fr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d1n1nb9vqA

2015 ISB Double Bass Competition: June 1st-2nd, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado (website)

Application deadlines are:
Solo division – January 5, 2015
Jazz division – January 16, 2015
Orchestra division – March 17, 2015
Age 15-18 division – January 6, 2015
Age 14 and Under – April 1, 2015