DHV:
261
Tourin ID:
EIS 13
Size:
Treble ?
Place Made:
Maker:
A
Date:
1725 C
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Eisenach
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Bach-Haus
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
49 (formerly 31)
Head:
Child
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Aloys Obrist, Weimar -1910
Measurements:
Body Length:
40.2
String Length:
36.1
Rib Depth:
5.6
Upper Width:
19.6
Middle Width:
13.1
Bottom Width:
24.4
Information
Source:
Heyde 1976, p. 86; PT visit 10/78
Literature:
Heyde 1976, p. 86; Breidert & Freyse 1964, p. 28
Photographs:
[line drawing in catalogue 3rd ed. 1939, omitted from 4th ed. 1964]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Heyde 1976: “Bratschierte Viola d’amore”; body Austrian (Salzburg or Vienna), c. 1720/30; similar to Partl and Weiss. 1-piece back with fold. Only body original; converted to a 5-string viola probably in 1809; repair label “J. Mathias Knilling / in Mittenwald anno 1809” [handwritten]. Rosette; head not original (“Ergänzung”). Open pegbox, rosette. 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side. Dimensions from 1939/1964 catalogues: 40, 19.5/-/24.5, 6,-.