DHV:
1260
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
A
Absam
Jacob
Stainer
Date:
1660 C
Label Text:
Jacobus Stainer in Absom prope Oenipontum 16..
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CH
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Dietrich Kessler, London, early 1960s-after 20xx; [unknown woman, England]
Measurements:
Body Length:
70.5
String Length:
69.2
Rib Depth:
13.9
Upper Width:
31.6
Middle Width:
22.4
Bottom Width:
41.3
Information
Source:
TGM visit 10/01; H. Harders to TGM, 9/00
Literature:
Photographs:
Hellwig 1984, p. 92 (front); [by TGM: FB+S (color)]; [unpublished, from M. Herzog 6/98: F+B (color)]
Recordings:
Rusó 2011 (CPE Bach, Abel); Rusó 2008 (”Touch me lightly”)
Auctions:
Comments:
Not in Senn & Roy 1986. 7-piece striped back, 3-piece striped ribs. Now with bird’s-eye maple veneered fingerboard and tailpiece. Front has been thinned; bass bar not original. Had been converted to a cello when acquired by Kessler in early 1960s; not restored until early 1990s, by John Topham. Neck and pegbox not original, now with old S. German lion’s head that it had while a cello. Dimensions from Harders: widths taken on back. Currently owned by a Swiss collector and played by Rebeka Rusó (per Tilman Muthesius, 3/12). Per Benjamin Schröder, labels with only 2 printed digits used from c. 1659-1662, hence suggested date.