DHV:
1550
Tourin ID:
Size:
Violone
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Mittenwald
Mathias
Klotz
Date:
1715
Label Text:
Mathias Khloz Lautenmacher in Mittenwald Anno 1715
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F
Paris
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
083.2
String Length:
080.6
Rib Depth:
14.7
Upper Width:
47.8
Middle Width:
24.6
Bottom Width:
37.7
Information
Source:
Krattenmacher 2002
Literature:
Krattenmacher 2002 (http://www.krattenmacher.com/dynasite.cfm?dsmid=11508&dspaid=56987)
Photographs:
Krattenmacher 2002 (F+B body only, head F+S [color])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Neck not original; could originally have had 4, 5, or 6 strings. Owner bought it in the Mittenwald area; said to be one of only 5 extant instruments by this maker (same claim in Drescher 1990 is credited to Wolfgang Zunterer). Back and ribs “cut on a half-slab”; bottom of back “has been visibly replaced in a past repair.” F-holes set wide apart (11.2 cm between); purfling rather close to edge, featuring “a comparatively wide white wood strip framed by two thinner black strips.” Not much original varnish, “but what remains is of the highest quality.” Repaired in Innsbruck, 20th C.; restored in Paris in 1998. (Article seen on author’s website, where no page numbers are given for original publication.)