DHV:
1181
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Venice
Ventura
Linarol
Date:
1585
Label Text:
Ventura di Francesco / Linarolo in Venetia / 1585 die ultimo augosto
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
A
Vienna
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Vázquez, José [heirs]
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
097
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
[Violin dealer, West Germany, -1994]
Measurements:
Body Length:
72
String Length:
72.2
Rib Depth:
14.7
Upper Width:
39.2
Middle Width:
27.7
Bottom Width:
42.7
Information
Source:
Vázquez to TGM, 11/96, 2/97
Literature:
Beuting 2007, pp. 187-89; Carter 2006
Photographs:
Vázquez website (front 3/4, F+B body only [color]); Beuting 2007, p. 187 (front 3/4 [color])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Table and back original; ribs are c. 1800. Recently reconverted from a cello; new scroll copied from another by this maker. Dendrochronological testing by Peter Klein shows youngest year-ring on table dates from 1564; both halves come from the same tree. Beuting 2007: dendrochronology gives date of 1498 for for youngest growth ring on table. Carter 2006: “thoroughly modernized, with a slender neck set at a steep angle, soundpost and overwound strings.”