DHV:
1603
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
François
Gavinies
Date:
1722
Label Text:
Gaviniès, rue / S. Thomas du / Louvre, a Paris 1722 [printed except 22]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Bombach
No. of Strings:
7
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Head
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
[a woman in southern Germany, c. 1939-1998; purchased from her estate via her niece, Frau Vogelbach]
Measurements:
Body Length:
70.5
String Length:
69
Rib Depth:
11
Upper Width:
30
Middle Width:
21
Bottom Width:
38
Information
Source:
Owner’s website, and owner to TGM, 1-3/13
Literature:
On owner’s website
Photographs:
On owner’s website (head 7/8 from below, rosette, bridge [color]); [unpublished, from owner: front (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Restored by Mathias Behrle, Freiburg: new neck, fingerboard and tailpiece, bridge, also half-edging. When found, was set up with only 6 (metal) strings and a very short neck, but pegbox revealed originally for 7, and so documented when previous owner purchased in 1939. Soundholes originally Cs, converted to Fs, then back to Cs; outline perhaps made smaller as well. Label seems original, and head not atypical for Gavinies, according to owner. (However, Gaviniès supposedly didn’t move from Bordeaux to Paris until 1734.)