DHV:
1365
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Date:
16..
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CH
Basel
No. of Strings:
7
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Male
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Jan Crafoord, Tullinge, Sweden, c. 1955-c. 2010
Measurements:
Body Length:
69.2
String Length:
69.5
Rib Depth:
14.3
Upper Width:
32.5
Middle Width:
23.5
Bottom Width:
39.5
Information
Source:
Owner to TGM, 3/13, 3/14, 8/22; J. Crafoord to TGM, 4/03
Literature:
Photographs:
[Unpublished, from owner, 1/19: F+B, head 3/4 (color); 3/13: F+S, back body only, front 3/4, bass C-hole, details showing added wood on shoulders of table (color)]
Recordings:
Eketorp 2016 (Cellini Consort)
Auctions:
Comments:
Neck, fingerboard, and tailpiece (for 6 strings) by Baumgartner, Basel, c. 1955, shortly after purchase by Crafoord (rather narrow--based on a Sprenger viol). 2-piece table (narrow grain, medium arching) with single purfling, 2-piece back with none. Male head has Tyrolean hat; Crafoord calls it “ugly”. Also, “Sometime wood has been added to the table which could perhaps indicate that it has had 7 strings.” Origin said to be northern France. Eketorp: dendrochronology test (by Felix Walder, later confirmed by John Topham) gives date of 1696 for youngest growth ring on table; table made of one central piece (carved, not bent) plus four wings (not bent), wood probably from S. German/N. Alpine region. Restored by John Topham in 2018 with 7 strings (new neck, fingerboard, and pegbox with carved scroll); dimensions 69.0, 32.0/23.3/39.0, 14.3, -; close dendro matching with 1720 Bertrand at Musée de la musique.