DHV:
112
Tourin ID:
BERB 11
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Barak
Norman
Date:
1697
Label Text:
Barak Norman / At the Basse viol / in St Pauls Ally / London Fecit / 1697 [handwritten]; BN monogram in center of back
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Berlin
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
168
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Paul de Wit, Leipzig, -1888
Measurements:
Body Length:
62.4
String Length:
64.6?
Rib Depth:
11.8
Upper Width:
29
Middle Width:
21.4
Bottom Width:
34.8
Information
Source:
Otto & Adelmann 1975, p. 113
Literature:
Otterstedt 2004, p. 120; Hebbert 2001, p. 294 (1697:2); König 1985, p. 31; Otto & Adelmann 1975, p. 113; Sachs 1922, col. 117
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front 7/8 [color]); Berlin 1988, pp. 225 (head 3/4), 242 (monogram); König 1985, Tafel 4 (front 3/4, head 3/4; all color); Baines 1966, pl. 101-2 (front 7/8, head 3/4); Berner 1952, Abb. 6 (front 3/4); Sachs 1922, pl. 14 (front 3/4); Lütgendorff 1922, 1:129 (front); museum postcard (front 7/8 [color]); [unpublished, from A. Oterstedt, 6/13: label]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Hebbert 2001: 3-piece table, 2-piece back; fingerboard and tailpiece not original. Sachs 1922: richly inlaid body, also fingerboard and tailpiece. Otto & Adelmann 1975: fingerboard and tailpiece from a larger and perhaps younger English viol; 3 pegs not original. Ivory pegheads have five black dots, like dice. Now has tailgut, originally hookbar. Drawings by Olga Adelmann (1970) available from museum. Otterstedt 2004: dendrochronology gives date of 1675 for for youngest growth ring on table. König 1985 dimensions 115.6, 62.5, 28.6/21.1/34.4, 11.5, 67.3; gives date as 1679 (typo). Table ornament Type V; BN monogram on back.