DHV:
1329
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
Oxford
William
Cross
Date:
16..
Label Text:
All sorts of Musical Instruments / Made, Mended, and Sold, by / William Cross, / At the Bass-Viol, and Flute, near Lincoln / College, Oxon ...
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB
London
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
City University
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
70.5
String Length:
Rib Depth:
12.6
Upper Width:
31
Middle Width:
22.4
Bottom Width:
36.4
Information
Source:
M. Fleming visit 4/02
Literature:
Photographs:
[Unpublished, from M. Fleming: FB+S body only, head front 3/4 and side (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
3-piece table, 2-piece back, both with single purfling. Neck not original but pegbox and scroll are; ebony fingerboard old but not original; tailpiece missing (also one peg). Hole in hookbar and bottom block for an endpin. Condition “battered and bashed about, but basically all there”; some cracks on table and ribs. (Cross was a music seller in Oxford from 1711 to 1752; perhaps only a dealer and not the actual maker of this instrument.)