DHV:
1590
Tourin ID:
Size:
Quinton
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Nicolas
Chappuy
Date:
17..
Label Text:
“N. CHAPPUY” branded at button; no label
Body Shape:
Violin
Current Location:
USA
New Haven, CT
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Yale University
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
4678
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Andrew Petryn, (New Haven, CT), -2011
Measurements:
Body Length:
37.5
String Length:
Rib Depth:
3.3
Upper Width:
16.7
Middle Width:
11.2
Bottom Width:
20.8
Information
Source:
Dipper 2012; Yale 2011, p. 3 [and e-mails from museum]
Literature:
Dipper 2012; Yale 2011, p. 3
Photographs:
On museum’s website (FB+S [color]); MacCracken 2017, p. 67 (front); Dipper 2012 (F++B, head F+S, brand stamp, 66 details before & during restoration [color]); Yale 2011, p. 3
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
2 pegs treble, 3 bass side; “ca. 1770”. Restored by Andrew Dipper, 2012: 3 new pegs, tailpiece, bridge, repair of cracks and shrinkage. Website: varnish is original. (Nicolas Chappuy active 1733-81.)