DHV:
1372
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]; Barak / Norman / London [stamped on table]; BN monogram in center of back
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Bremen
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Gertrud Pietschmann, Bremen, 1980-2021; private owner, Hamburg, -1980
Measurements:
Body Length:
65
String Length:
66
Rib Depth:
12.2
Upper Width:
30.8
Middle Width:
23.3
Bottom Width:
37.5
Information
Source:
Owner to TGM, 11/24; TGM visit, 11/10; T. Muthesius to TGM, 7/03
Literature:
Photographs:
On owner’s website (F+B body only, label [color]); back cover of The Viol No. 73 (Winter 2023/24) (F body only [color]); [unpublished, from owner 11/24: front, F+B body only, table ornament, label (color); by TGM, 11/10: FB+S, table ornament, label (color)]
Recordings:
Töpelmann 2023 (Abel et al.); Gerhardt 2001 (Simpson)
Auctions:
Comments:
New neck and scroll, fingerboard and bridge by R. Ossenbrunner in 1981. Table ornament Type VII, back center BN monogram, upper and lower Type II. Two letters on label scraped away: “a[t t]he”; “V” extends to above final “n”. String length now 68, with soundpost above the bridge.