DHV:
1648
Tourin ID:
Size:
Pardessus
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Pierre
Le Pilleur
Date:
1755
Label Text:
Le Pilleur privilegiez / du Roy Abaye de St Germain / 1755 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CDN
Granby, PQ
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Gerald Trimble, Kansas City, MO, 2013-16; André Bissonet, Paris
Measurements:
Body Length:
33.3
String Length:
32.5
Rib Depth:
4.8
Upper Width:
16.2
Middle Width:
11.6
Bottom Width:
18.9
Information
Source:
J. Pringle to TGM, 9/13
Literature:
Photographs:
Corriveau 2021 (front 3/4 [color], front, pegbox, treble F-hole, treble ribs); [Unpublished, from J. Pringle: FB+S, body F+B, head FB+S, soundholes, etc. (color)]
Recordings:
Corriveau 2021 (Bach)
Auctions:
Comments:
Arched back with slight fold; high arching on table; both with single purfling plus black edging; striped ribs (2 maple, 3 fruitwood) with wildly wavy joint lines. La Fille head and carved pegbox (with “points” front and back); was 3 pegs treble, 2 bass side, by 2021 changed to 2 treble, 3 bass. All original except fingerboard, tailpiece (with tail gut), nut, button, and 1 peg. Per Pringle, well made except design and workmanship of soundholes, which are awkwardly widened in middle and have small circles near inside edges, 2/3 down (at level of bridge foot marks).