DHV:
1583
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Augsburg
Georg
Aman
Date:
17..
Label Text:
Georg Aman, Lauten- und Geigenmacher, in Augspurg, 17 [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
NL
Utrecht
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Alfred Lessing, Düsseldorf, before 1963-2005
Measurements:
Body Length:
69.8
String Length:
69.3
Rib Depth:
13.5
Upper Width:
30.5
Middle Width:
21.8
Bottom Width:
38
Information
Source:
Owner to TGM, 4/11; owner’s website (www.gambomania.com) and publicity
Literature:
Photographs:
On owner’s website and publicity (front, front 3/4 [color]); Cable 1977 (German 17C)
Recordings:
Meulenbroeks 2008 (Bach); Meulenbroeks 2006 (Marais); Cable 1977 (German 17C)
Auctions:
Comments:
Long, narrow soundholes; large, round rosette half covered by current fingerboard (which is black with a blond border and a blond decoration near the lower end). Date given as 1712 on Cable 1977, but 1705 in current owner’s publicity; last two digits now illegible so both are guesses.