DHV:
1017
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Petter
Hackings
Date:
1621
Label Text:
Petter Hackings / LONDON . 1621 [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F
Lille
No. of Strings:
7
Collection:
Musée Régional de l’Hospice Comtesse, Collection J. & P. Hel
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
C.146 / 2002.0.21
Head:
Male
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Heirs of Pierre Hel, Lille, -1957
Measurements:
Body Length:
71.2
String Length:
70.7?
Rib Depth:
12.6
Upper Width:
32.9
Middle Width:
23.2
Bottom Width:
40
Information
Source:
Fleming 2001: VME 36; Hel 1989, p. 56 (no. 20); Pringle 1/94
Literature:
Fleming 2001: VME 36; Hel 1989, p. 56 (no. 20)
Photographs:
On museum’s website (via Musée de la musique, “inventaire national en ligne”) (front body only [color]); Fleming 2001: VME F36 (front body only [color]); Hel 1989, p. 56 (no. 20) (head 3/4); [unpublished, from M. Fleming: 6 details of C-bouts and C-holes (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Hel 1989 catalogue (F. Gétreau): 2-piece back, 2-piece table; upper part of neck probably from conversion to cello (cf. repair label: “Réparé par Joseph POUILLE / Luthier à Lille en 1844”); head French c. 1700, probably from conversion to 7 strings; dimensions: 71.0, 32.7/23.0/39.7, 12.5, -. Fleming 2001: table (with single purfling) not original (“dendrochronology proves the belly was made after 1680”); slight possibility that back and ribs made in London in 1621. Pringle: Probably originally 6 strings (tailpiece drilled both ways). Neck original but reshaped both length and width. Worm damage. Drawing by Jean-Pierre Leclercq, available from Paris Conservatoire: dimensions (not over arching) 71, 33/-/40, 12.5, 75 [sic].