DHV:
1518
Tourin ID:
Size:
Tenor ?
Place Made:
Maker:
Date:
Label Text:
Hieronimo di vir in Bresa
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
IL
Ranana
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Herzog, Myrna
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
Head:
Lion ?
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Fred Lindeman, Amsterdam, -c. 2007
Measurements:
Body Length:
51
String Length:
54
Rib Depth:
7
Upper Width:
24.5
Middle Width:
16
Bottom Width:
32.5
Information
Source:
Owner to TGM, 12/07 and 5/09
Literature:
Photographs:
[Unpublished, from owner: FB+S, label; many details before, during, and after restoration (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Table with high arching, rosette, and 5-ply purfling; back with similar purfling plus a single line considerably farther from edge, which loops inward at 4 corners and button; both with significant recurve. Corners unpointed, shoulders rather square; soundholes have something like a star instead of upper eyes, with a small circular hole just inside the main curve. Gift to Herzog from Lindeman, having been in latter’s family “as long as Fred can remember,” with no neck, and the body seemingly coated only with a ground but no (colored) varnish. (Previous owner was a family friend, a musicologist and museum curator, who bought it at an auction.) Lindeman says appearance suggests origin in 18th-C. Bavaria or Bohemia. Traces of pins in the bottom rib and on the table near the neck, perhaps for 5 metal sympathetic strings. New neck, head, and all fittings by Amit Tiefenbrunn, Israel, c. 2008.