DHV:
1644
Tourin ID:
Size:
Quinton ?
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Jean-Mathias
Wolters
Date:
1749
Label Text:
J. M. Wolters fecit Lutetiae / Parisorum, au Faubourg / St. Antoine a Paris, 1749 [handwritten]
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No. of Strings:
5 ?
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Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Savoye
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Information
Source:
Herzog 2003, QT-93; Vannes 1999, p. 398
Literature:
Herzog 2003, QT-93; Vannes 1999, p. 398
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Comments:
Insufficient information to be sure it isn’t a pardessus: Vannes calls it a quinton, but C. Stainer (in A Dictionary of Violin Makers, 1898) “a small six-stringed viol”. Both give date of 1749, so probably not two different instruments.