DHV:
1593
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass ?
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Niort ?
Auguste
Tolbecque
Date:
1877
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
B
Brussels
No. of Strings:
15
Collection:
Musée des instruments de musique
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
0488
Head:
Head
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Auguste Tolbecque, -1879
Measurements:
Body Length:
String Length:
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
Information
Source:
Mahillon 2/1893, 1:468
Literature:
Mahillon 2/1893, 1:468
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front, side 7/8 [color])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Mahillon: Basse de viole ... d’après un modèle de Gaspar da Salo; museum’s website: viole de gambe expérimentale. 2 strings lie beyond bass edge of fingerboard; others apparently all to be bowed (none sympathetic, though Mahillon says “six cordes principales”): attempt at a lira da gamba? Blond fingerboard and tailpiece with lighter floral inlays; painted nymphs on table either side of tailpiece, male head plus 2 flying cupids at end of fingerboard; perimeter outlined with row of white dots, perhaps mother of pearl. Back and ribs heavily decorated. Cf. Niort 2012.1.1 (DHV 1711), with similar stringing but different soundholes and body outline.