DHV:
211
Tourin ID:
CALD 11
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Jean
Ouvrard
Date:
1743
Label Text:
Ouvrard, Luthier, Place / de l'Ecole A Paris / 1743 [printed except 1743]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Mishawaka, IN
No. of Strings:
7
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
James Caldwell & Catharina Meints, Oberlin, OH, c. 1970-1985; Joy Hall, England (sold via Tony Bingham, London)
Measurements:
Body Length:
68.9
String Length:
69.6
Rib Depth:
12.3
Upper Width:
32.3
Middle Width:
23.3
Bottom Width:
39.2
Information
Source:
TGM visit 8/92
Literature:
Herzog 2003, FR-7; Caldwell 1974, pp. 86-7
Photographs:
Meints 1977 (Vox SVBX 5142), p. 3 (F+B); Caldwell 1974, pp. 86-7 (FB+S); [unpublished, by and from R. Portillo: FB+S, head front (color)]
Recordings:
Rozendaal 2011 (Trio ‘700/French); Meints 1993 (Marais); Slowik 1990 (Marais); Meints 1980 (Bach BWV 1028); Meints 1977 (French Baroque); Caldwell 1973 (Marais); Hall 1963 (Morley Consort Lessons/Bream)
Auctions:
Comments:
Arched back; pegbox not original. Head by N. Dolmetsch (she told Caldwells). Restored by Paul Reichlin 1971, with return to sloping shoulders and longer neck than when Caldwells bought it. Tourin: body enlarged. “Réparé par Rigondeau, / Luthier, à la Rochelle” [printed].