DHV:
1736
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
Date:
18.. ?
Label Text:
Reparé par J. Darche / luthier, / à Bruxelles / 185 [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
New Haven, CT
No. of Strings:
7+12
Collection:
Yale University
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
4683.2014
Head:
Male
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Rhode Island School of Design (39.021); Albert Steinert
Measurements:
Body Length:
68.5
String Length:
67.4
Rib Depth:
12.6
Upper Width:
32.3
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
41.3
Information
Source:
TGM visit 6/23
Literature:
Photographs:
[Unpublished, by TGM: FB+S body only, rosette, pegbox F+B, carved head (detached), bridge, bottom rib (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Table with 6-petal rosette, low arching,and large crack upward from treble C-hole; back with no purfling. Open-back pegbox with 19 pegs all the same size; elaborately carved head of bearded man (detached when seen). Fingerboard and tailpiece ebony with dimpled ends nearest bridge; hookbar and projecting tube/socket for endpin, with 6 hitchpins each side. Bridge with 12 individual holes for sympathetic strings; top and bottom bowed strings extremely close to outer edges. Likely not only repaired but made by Darche.