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DHV:
1712
Tourin ID:

Size:

Bass

Place Made:

Maker:

A

Salzburg

Johann Paul

Schorn

Date:

1709

Label Text:

Joann Paul Schorn / H F. Musicus auch Lauten / und Geigenmacher in Salz- / burg. Ao 1709 [printed except 09]

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

D

Leipzig

No. of Strings:

6

Collection:

Private Collection

Sound Holes:

Flame

Catalog Number:

Head:

Female

Private Owner:

Yes

Previous Owner:

Elisabeth Kletzin, -2020; her father; a musician from Mainz, -c. 1920

Measurements:

Body Length:

71.3

String Length:

69.9

Rib Depth:

11.2

Upper Width:

28.8

Middle Width:

20.5

Bottom Width:

37

Information

Source:

Owner to TGM, 9+11/20

Literature:

Fritzsch 2023a

Photographs:

Fritzsch 2023a, pp. 24-25 (front 3/4, head 3/4, label); [unpublished, from owner: front, body open, underside of table, label (color)]

Recordings:

Fritzch 2023

Auctions:

Comments:

Arched back with no fold. Restored in 1970s by Jörn Erichson for previous owner; again in 2020 by Bernd Hiller for current owner: new neck, fingerboard and tailpiece (with fancy black-and-white edging); new soundpost and bridge, bottom block and hookbar. Soundholes originally Fs; large circular rosette. Carved head is blindfolded; upper part of pegbox original, lower part an old replacement. Widths measured on the back. Owner claims (based on “oral tradition”) it was originally owned by the composer Josef Fiala.

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