DHV:
1544
Tourin ID:
Size:
Treble ?
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Munich
Rudolph
Höss
Date:
1676
Label Text:
Ruedolph Höß Churf / Hof Lautenmacher in / München 1676 [printed except 76]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CH
Geneva
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée d’art et d’histoire
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
IM 05
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Fritz Ernst, Geneva, -1969
Measurements:
Body Length:
37.9
String Length:
34.5 ?
Rib Depth:
4.4
Upper Width:
18.5
Middle Width:
12.5
Bottom Width:
22.5
Information
Source:
A.-M. Huwyler to TGM 9/24; J. Deferne to TGM, 2/10, 6/10
Literature:
Photographs:
Museum checklist (F [color]); [unpublished, from J. Deferne 2/10: front, head side (color)]; from A.-M. Huwyler 9/24: label (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
One of only two small Höss instruments with 6 strings (other setup not original). Date seems questionable, since he worked for Lorenz Hollmayr until latter’s death in 1681; however, he also signed Berlin 4381, dated 1670 and originally a viola d’amore with sympathetic strings.