DHV:
1635
Tourin ID:
Size:
Violone
Place Made:
Maker:
Date:
Label Text:
Ego Joseph Volpi / fecit in civitate / Tiferni / Anno Domini 1555
Body Shape:
Cello
Current Location:
EIRE
Glenfarriff
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Sarah Cunningham, London; Jay Bernfeld, -late 1980s
Measurements:
Body Length:
101.2
String Length:
095.0
Rib Depth:
10
Upper Width:
56.8
Middle Width:
29.2
Bottom Width:
45.5
Information
Source:
Owner to TGM, 6-7/13
Literature:
Photographs:
[Unpublished, from S. Groser, 7/13: FB+SS, front body only, head F+S (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Black fingerboard and tailpiece with light perimeter inlay ending in diamond patterns at ends closest to bridge. Plain pegbox; tailgut. Repair label: “A. Dipper Luthier / corrected and restored / by me 12/12/86” (for S. Cunningham). Cunningham to TGM, 7/13: many theories about its origins, none conclusive; “nobody has ever heard of Volpi.”