DHV:
1267
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Barak
Norman
Date:
1722
Label Text:
Barak Norman / at the Bass Viol in / St Pauls Church-yd / London Fecit / 1722 [printed except 1722]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Asheville, NC
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
William L. Monical, Staten Island, NY, -2005
Measurements:
Body Length:
69
String Length:
68.7
Rib Depth:
11.7
Upper Width:
29.4
Middle Width:
21.9
Bottom Width:
36.8
Information
Source:
TGM exam 2/01
Literature:
Photographs:
[by TGM: FB+S, F body only, head FB+S, table ornament (color)] [unpublished, from S. Peck 7/12: label (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Table 1-piece (?) with 4 wings; back 1-piece (quite sunken just below fold); both with double purfling. Pegbox decorated only on front edges; tailgut; back braces very thin (one each in upper and lower bouts), corner blocks but perimeter linings cloth only. (Not in Hebbert 2001.) Table ornament Type VIII, back center Type III, upper and lower Type IIa.