DHV:
1054
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Date:
17..
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Halle
No. of Strings:
7
Collection:
Händel-Haus
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
226
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
69
String Length:
69.3
Rib Depth:
11.7
Upper Width:
32.7
Middle Width:
24
Bottom Width:
40.2
Information
Source:
Heyde 1983, pp. 88-9; Saase 1972, pp. 100-01
Literature:
Heyde 1983, pp. 88-9; Saase 1972, p. 101
Photographs:
Saase 1972, p. 100 (FB+S)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Saase 1972: Probably French (Mirecourt?), from first half of 18th C. 4-piece table with rosette and ebony-and-ivory edging (also on fingerboard and tailpiece); 1-piece back with no purfling. Soundholes have no upper eyes, and lower ones make a right-angle turn upward. Neck angled back quite sharply. Heyde 1983: Ribs don’t belong to table and back, which overhang them unequally. Black-and-white table rim not original, probably by 19th-C “restorer”; back has painted purfling (and table probably did originally as well). Was converted to cello.