DHV:
1039
Tourin ID:
Size:
Violone
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Nuremberg
Ernst
Busch
Date:
16..
Label Text:
Ernst Busch / in Nürnberg [printed]
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
D
Cologne
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
089.3
String Length:
086.5
Rib Depth:
18.3
Upper Width:
43
Middle Width:
33.5
Bottom Width:
51.2
Information
Source:
Martius & Schulze 1991, pp. 176, 181
Literature:
Martius & Schulze 1991, pp. 176, 181
Photographs:
Martius & Schulze 1991, pp. 146 (label), 151 (inside of back), 175 (F+S)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Converted to 4-string contrabass before 1906, using original neck, lengthened and angled. Restored 1988 with new neck and fittings (fingerboard and tailpiece copied from Nuremberg GNM MI 15 = NURN 9). Table with double purfling, back with single; back and ribs of bird’s-eye maple. Herkunft: aus dem Stuttgarter Raum. (Busch active from 1622; died in 1648.)