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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.)

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