DHV:
1423
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
B
Brussels
Charles
Hautstont
Date:
1898
Label Text:
Mantegazza / Milano
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
DüsseldorfDüsseldorf
No. of Strings:
6+6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Rudolf Stelzhammer, Vienna, -1955
Measurements:
Body Length:
70
String Length:
68
Rib Depth:
12
Upper Width:
34
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
43.3
Information
Source:
M. Herzog 9/05
Literature:
Photographs:
Hoffmann 2018, p. 343 (head 3/4); [unpublished, from owner via M. Herzog 9/05: front, back 3/4 (color); from M. Herzog 6/98: front (color)]
Recordings:
[Wolf-Ferrari, Duo in G minor (Serenata), op. 33, for viola d’amore (Arnt Martin) and viola da gamba (Alfred Lessing): a radio recording? not in discography]
Auctions:
Comments:
Arched back, ebony and ivory edging to table. All 12 pegs face front (some original, of bone; others replacements, of ivory; the lower 10 “completed with Gilbert-Patenschaft”). Written on underside of table, in lower bout area: Charles Hautstont / 1898 / Bruxelles. Restored by Horst Weller, Duisburg, 1955; by Alfred Lessing, Düsseldorf, 1991.