DHV:
1097
Tourin ID:
Size:
Tenor ?
Place Made:
Maker:
Date:
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
J
Tokyo
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
Head:
Male
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Toshinari Ohashi, Japan
Measurements:
Body Length:
59
String Length:
58.5
Rib Depth:
15
Upper Width:
29.8
Middle Width:
26
Bottom Width:
40.3
Information
Source:
Owner to TGM, 6/04 and 1/05; Sotheby’s 11/13/87, lot 325
Literature:
Sotheby’s 11/13/87, lot 325
Photographs:
Sotheby’s 11/13/87, lot 325 [unpublished, from owner: FB+S (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Sotheby’s 1987/11/13, lot 325
Odd body shape, with lower bouts very much wider than upper and steeply sloping shoulders. Restored by Torajirou Sakamoto for H. Nakahara. According to owner, “has a crescent hole for hanging gamba from neck.” Sotheby’s photo showed with 5 strings (2 pegs treble, 3 bass side) but now has 6, replacing former “widely flared pegbox surmounted by a ghoulish carving of a man’s head” (new head carved by Mrs. T. Ohashi); fingerboard and tailpiece also changed. Sotheby’s: small bass, 18th C., possibly Bohemian or Tyrolese; 1-piece back, body slightly indented at bottom block; exaggeratedly angular f-holes; body length 58.0, string length 58.5. (Nakahara’s rib height probably includes thickness of table and back.)