DHV:
1594
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass ?
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Date:
1650 C
Label Text:
Zuane Rechardini di Venezia / all’ insegna del Basso 1605 [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
B
Brussels
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Musée des instruments de musique
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
1434
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Count Pietro Correr, Venice, -1886
Measurements:
Body Length:
String Length:
Rib Depth:
15
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
45
Information
Source:
Moens 2004, esp. pp. 94-97; Lütgendorff 1922, 2:407; Mahillon 1900, 3:55
Literature:
Moens 2004, esp. pp. 94-97; Lütgendorff 1922, 2:407; Mahillon 1900, 3:55
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+S [color]); Pio 2011, p. 97 (FB+S); Moens 2004, pp. 95-96 (F+S, head S+B, neck heel)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Mahillon (and website): Basse quinte de viole de braccio, made from a large cello but has a flat back; museum’s website: basse de viole de gambe, auteur inconnu, ca. 1650. Lütgendorff gives label text and calls it a Terzino di Contrabasso (Baryton); Drescher, s.v. Rechaldini, says Brussels 1378 is another bass attributed to him [but larger: total length 160, max width 59; 5 strings, semi-pointed body corners; also ex-Correr: museum calls it a violone, but Mahillon said contrebasse; not in this database], and Berlin museum has 1609 theorbo; Venetian archives document a violinist by that name in 1656-57, though no indication he also built instruments, so perhaps not the same person. (cf. Moens 2004, p. 79)