DHV:
1623
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
A
Salzburg
Andreas Ferdinand
Mayr
Date:
1755
Label Text:
Andreas Ferdinandus / Mayr Hof- Lauten und / Geigenmacher in Saltzburg / 1755 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Cello
Current Location:
CDN
Toronto, ON
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Charles Gustav Wendt, Iowa City, IA (d. 7/11) & heirs, -2013
Measurements:
Body Length:
68.5
String Length:
69.5
Rib Depth:
12
Upper Width:
29.8
Middle Width:
20
Bottom Width:
37.7
Information
Source:
J. Pringle to TGM, 6+9/13; Monical appraisal (1998) via J. Morton 3/13
Literature:
Photographs:
[Unpublished, from J. Pringle 9/13: F 7/8 + SS, B body only, head 3/4, soundholes, bottom rib, label (color); from J. Morton 3/13: FB+S, head F+S, bass F-hole and part of label (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Monical (1998): modern (early 20th C.) neck, pegbox, and head; sculpted ends to fingerboard and tailpiece; tailgut; his dimensions 69.0, 30.2/21.3/37.8, 12.2, 62.5. Neck inset to table and barely long enough for 7 frets, with string length of 63.5. Label damaged and difficult to read. Restored 2013 by John Pringle (new neck, fingerboard and tailpiece with hookbar); single purfling front and back, table heavily restored for worm damage; glossy red-brown overvarnish. Pegbox old but probably not original to body; no decoration, 2 pegholes bushed; grafted to replacement neck. Kelischek repair label (Atlanta, April 1963), but he told Pringle neck not by him.