DHV:
1400
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Munich
Adam
Mayr
Date:
17..
Label Text:
Adam Mayr / Geigenmacher / ob der Aw, negst München / 17..
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
D
Niederaltaich
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Ruhland, Konrad [heirs]
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Harro Schmidt, Hamburg, -1998; Stieber, Netherlands, -c. 1930
Measurements:
Body Length:
65
String Length:
65.8
Rib Depth:
11.8
Upper Width:
29
Middle Width:
18.6
Bottom Width:
37
Information
Source:
M. Ruhland to TGM, 10+11/23; K. Ruhland to TGM, 12/03
Literature:
Photographs:
Focht 2006, p. 110 (front body only); [unpublished, from owner, in dealer’s certificate: FB+S]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Soundholes are double-commas. Restored 1981 by Hans Schicker, Freiburg im Breisgau (new soundpost plate). Head is new, by Martin Brüggemann (Winsen/L.), after the Brussels instrument [BRUS 54]. (Mayr died in 1736.)