DHV:
1444
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
PL
Krakow
Marcin
Groblicz
Date:
1720 C
Label Text:
Ad. M. D. G. / Marcin Groblicz / 1601 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
PL
Krakow
No. of Strings:
(4)
Collection:
Muzeum Narodowe
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
MNK IV-Sp-80/1
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
70.0
String Length:
Rib Depth:
15.0
Upper Width:
32.5
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
40.2
Information
Source:
A. Knast to TGM, 6/07; M. Caudle to TGM, 9/04
Literature:
Frankowski 2016, pp. 43, 182-86; Kaminski 1992, p. 19
Photographs:
Frankowski 2016, pp. 42, 183-86 (label; front, F+B body only, head FB+S [color]); [unpublished, from A. Knast 6/07: front (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Converted to a cello; body has slightly pointed corners and arched back (cf. MNP-I.234 / POZNAN 2). Frankowski 2016: 4-piece table (= 2 wings?), 1-piece back of bird’s-eye maple, ribs of bird-eye maple with a central stripe of darker varnish; neck not original. Label date perhaps added in a different handwriting; youngest tree ring on table dated 1715. 3 repair labels (on the rib: “Henryk Skurczyþski / 15 marca 1960 Kraków”; on the top block: “Wojciech Ostrowski Reperowaä / w Krakowie w dniu 4 luty 1815 Roku”; on the bottom block: “Reperowaä Feliks Szeligowski / 1 lutego 1850 w Krakowie”); dimensions 70.2, 32.9/24.0/41.0, -, - (back widths 32.3/24.3/40.4).