Photograph
Ida Carroll
1935

Ida Carroll, the double bassist from Manchester, with a double bass in Manchester! (Probably!)
She only started to play the double bass because the Northern School of Music where she studied and worked didn't have a bassist for their string orchestra. So she turned her pianists hands to it.

Ref: CARROLL/IGC/11
Date unknown
With thanks to the Ida Carroll Trust

Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.