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DHV:
1735
Tourin ID:

Size:

Bass

Place Made:

Maker:

Date:

Label Text:

Zanetto da bressa [handwritten]

Body Shape:

Cello

Current Location:

USA

New Haven, CT

No. of Strings:

4

Collection:

Yale University

Sound Holes:

F

Catalog Number:

4682.2014

Head:

Scroll

Private Owner:

Previous Owner:

Rhode Island School of Design (50.228); Albert Steinert

Measurements:

Body Length:

63.7

String Length:

Rib Depth:

Upper Width:

30.4

Middle Width:

21.1

Bottom Width:

36.8

Information

Source:

TGM visit 6/23

Literature:

Photographs:

[Unpublished, by TGM: F+B, S body only, soundholes and lower bout, head B+S (color)]

Recordings:

Auctions:

Comments:

Pointed body corners but sloping shoulders; 2-piece table of wide and partially wild grain, with 2 wings in lower bout and low arching; slab-cut back, seemingly 1-piece. Pegbox with fluted back for 6 strings is grafted to neck; tailpiece also for 6 strings but nut for 4 (bridge missing); neck narrower than original, with ebony fillers on each side at heel. Scroll has small flower in center and pegbox has carving on button; fingerboard and tailpiece of solid ebony, with ivory strip at top end of tailpiece; tailgut with endpin fitting; 2-piece bottom rib. In fragile condition, especially back (cracks and open joints); varnish very blotchy all over. Website: Italian, 17th century; no further description.

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