DHV:
1463
Tourin ID:
Size:
Pardessus
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
François
Gavinies
Date:
1749
Label Text:
GAVINIE’S, rue Saint / Thomas du Louvre, / A PARIS, 1749 [printed except 49; sic with apostrophe instead of accent]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F
Paris
No. of Strings:
6+5 ?
Collection:
Musée de la musique
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
E.2474
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
34.6
String Length:
32?
Rib Depth:
5.5
Upper Width:
17
Middle Width:
12.2
Bottom Width:
20.8
Information
Source:
TGM visit 8/11; museum’s website
Literature:
Photographs:
On museum’s website (FB+S, head side); [by TGM: table inside and out, back inside and out (all body only), bottom ribs, neck and pegbox F+S, head back, label (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
When seen, top was off and neck not attached to body. Pegbox open in back (2 rectangular windows) with 11 sets of holes (6 pegs treble, 5 bass side, all same size), La Fille-style decoration, and outward points midway; integral with neck and open scroll (with carved flower at eyes), so all probably original: viola d’amore? Metal rod between pegbox walls, purpose unknown; currently divides lower 6 from upper 5 pegs, but previously located closer to nut, giving 4+7 (violon d’amour? or perhaps irrelevant). All strings apparently meant to pass through individual holes in an ivory bar just beyond the saddle and attach to hitchpins in an ivory plate fastened to bottom rib; no bridge, fingerboard, or tailpiece seen; no evidence of tailgut/button, though may once have had a hookbar. Interior linings mostly cloth; those between back and ribs seem to be twisted or braided, but between table and ribs are thin wood.