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DHV:
207
Tourin ID:
CALD 07

Size:

Treble

Place Made:

Maker:

F

Date:

Label Text:

[None]

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

USA

Oberlin, OH

No. of Strings:

6

Collection:

Caldwell, Catharina Meints

Sound Holes:

C

Catalog Number:

Head:

Female

Private Owner:

Yes

Previous Owner:

Tony Bingham, London, -1974; Alain Vian, Paris

Measurements:

Body Length:

36.9

String Length:

37.2

Rib Depth:

7

Upper Width:

17.1

Middle Width:

12.8

Bottom Width:

21.4

Information

Source:

Caldwell 2012, pp. 88-91; TGM visit 7/92

Literature:

Caldwell 2012, pp. 88-91; Caldwell 2012a, p. 63; Caldwell 2012, pp. 88-91; Caldwell 1974, pp. 76-7

Photographs:

Caldwell 2012a, p. 63 (F+B [color]); Caldwell 2012, pp. 88-91 (FB+S, head FB+S [color]; underside of table, inside of treble ribs); Meints 1977 (Vox SVBX 5142), p. 3 (F+S); Caldwell 1974, pp. 76-7 (FB+S); [by TGM: F+S]

Recordings:

LeStrange Viols 2018; Meints 2017 (FĂȘtes Galantes: Marais); Meints 1989 (Lawes: Oberlin Consort); Meints 1984 (Purcell: Oberlin Consort)

Auctions:

Comments:

All original except bridge, soundpost, and one peg. Neck is thin and fingerboard wide. Double inked purfling on table, also inked rosette and quarter-circle decorations at each corner; no decoration on back. Restored (and later copied) by Michael Heale, 1979. Long string length for a French treble, implied by painted marks on back of neck for fret placement. Lower eyes of C-holes completely below lower body corners. Tourin/JVdGSA dimensions: 68.5, 37.0, 17.1/12.5/21.5, 7.7, 38.2. Caldwell 2012 dimensions: 36.9, 16.9/12.6/21.3, 7.0, 37.5.

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