DHV:
1057
Tourin ID:
Size:
Tenor
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Königsberg
Gregor
Karpp
Date:
1693
Label Text:
Gregorii Karp / In Königsberg / Anno 1693 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Vermillion, SD
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
National Music Museum
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
4573
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Tony Bingham, London, 1988-89; Eric Marshall Johnson (1899-1987); Francis W. Galpin
Measurements:
Body Length:
54.8
String Length:
51
Rib Depth:
10.8
Upper Width:
26.8
Middle Width:
19.5
Bottom Width:
31
Information
Source:
TGM visit 6/95
Literature:
MacCracken 2022, p. 88; Sotheby’s 11/23-25/88, lot 663
Photographs:
On museum’s website (FB+S, head FB+S, neck heel, label; multiple views of case [color]); Heyde 1994, pp. 370-71 (front, head FB+S, label); Sotheby’s 11/23-25/88, lot 663 (F+B); Heyde 1994, p. 370 (front, head FB+S, label)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Sotheby’s 1988/11/23-25, lot 663
With period case. Fingerboard and neck narrowed for use with only four strings; rewidened with ebony wood and putty filler; now angled quite far back. Fingerboard and tailpiece have black and white trapezoidal pattern; elaborately carved pegbox. Website dimensions: 55.0 (back), 25.7/18.7/30.3, 10.7, 51.3. Sotheby’s: originally made for Margrave of Brandenburg; Heyde 1994 says wrong. Not in Otterstedt 1986? Cf. Yale’s Karpp tenor, also with C holes (not flame) andblack-and-white design on fingerboard and tailpiece.