DHV:
1630
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
A
Salzburg
Andreas Ferdinand
Mayr
Date:
1749
Label Text:
Andreas Ferdinandus Mayr / Hof- Laut- und Geigenmacher / in Salzburg. An. 1749 [printed except 49]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Evanston, IL
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Richard & Jeannine Abel, Sewickley, PA, 1974-2012; Havivi Violins, New York
Measurements:
Body Length:
70.5
String Length:
67.1
Rib Depth:
12.8
Upper Width:
30.8
Middle Width:
24
Bottom Width:
39.7
Information
Source:
Owner to TGM, 6-9/13; J. Abel to TGM, 6/13
Literature:
Photographs:
[Unpublished, from owner: FB+SS, FB+SS body only, head FB+S, label (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
“Reconditioned” (J. Abel’s word) in 1981 by W. Monical: new bridge, soundpost, repairs to body and fingerboard; he considered it to be late 18-early 19C work. Has an endpin; diagonal upper end of tailpiece. Back of pegbox is open-carved. C-holes quite vertical and positioned well above lower body corners. Label typography matches Lütgendorff no. 540 and Vannes no. 1501, but seems rather clean for its claimed age.