DHV:
1711
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass ?
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Niort
Auguste
Tolbecque
Date:
1898 C
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
F
Niort
No. of Strings:
15
Collection:
Musée Bernard d'Agesci
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
2012.1.1
Head:
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Jean Michel Renard, -2012
Measurements:
Body Length:
74
String Length:
78
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
32
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
45.5
Information
Source:
Museum website
Literature:
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front [color])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Museum’s website: lyrone, basse de lyre; based on Mersenne’s illustration of a “Lyre” (Book 4, Proposition 8). 3-piece table with black-and-white edging and coat of arms above soundholes; ribs and 1-piece back of walnut; fingerboard, tailpiece (with cloverleaf cutout), and pegs of elm. Inscription: LAVDATE EVM IN TIMPANO ET CHORO LAVDATE EVM (Ps. 150:4). Strung similarly to Brussels 488 (DHV 1593), with 2 strings beyond bass edge of fingerboard, but soundholes and body outline different: here only a single curve in upper bouts, upper corners less pointed, “dimples” in lower bouts closer to bottom.