DHV:
195
Tourin ID:
BRUS 64
Size:
Treble
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Douai
Charle
Bis ?
Date:
Label Text:
Faict à Douaij par Charle Bis [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
B
Brussels
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée des instruments de musique
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
2888
Head:
Child
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Louis Cavens, -1908; C.C. Snoeck, Ghent (-1898)
Measurements:
Body Length:
38.2
String Length:
40
Rib Depth:
8
Upper Width:
22.2
Middle Width:
18.5
Bottom Width:
27.3
Information
Source:
PT visits 6/77 & 9/78 (?)
Literature:
Vannes 1999, p. 31; Mahillon 1912, 4:422; [not in Snoeck 1903?]
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+S [color])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Striped back (3 light, 2 dark) and ribs (2 light, 1 dark). Original fingerboard and tailpiece with decorative purfling. Photo on museum’s website shows only 4 pegs (in positions for 1, 2, 4, and 6); no tailpiece, but blond fingerboard has English-style geometric decoration; tailpiece similar but later. Vannes: only known instrument by this maker; rest of surname is illegible. (Tourin gave maker’s [sur-]name as Charle.)