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DHV:
285
Tourin ID:
GENEV 05

Size:

Treble ?

Place Made:

Maker:

D

Augsburg

Georg

Aman

Date:

1700 C

Label Text:

Georg Aman, Lau- / ten und Geigen- / macher, in Aug- /spurg 17 [printed]

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

CH

Geneva

No. of Strings:

6

Collection:

Musée d’art et d’histoire

Sound Holes:

Flame

Catalog Number:

IM 07

Head:

Cupid

Private Owner:

Previous Owner:

Fritz Ernst, Geneva, -1969

Measurements:

Body Length:

33.8

String Length:

36.2

Rib Depth:

5.1

Upper Width:

18.8

Middle Width:

12.9

Bottom Width:

22.1

Information

Source:

A.-M. Huwyler to TGM 4+9/24; PT visit 10/78

Literature:

Photographs:

Museum checklist (F [color]); [unpublished, from A.-M. Huwyler 9/24: label (color); [by PT: front (color)]

Recordings:

Auctions:

Comments:

Tourin: thin ribs, high arching; arm viol? TGM: Carved head is blindfolded, so likely a viola d’amore. Huwyler: “Le corps est sans sucun doute d’une viole d’amour”; head original, fingerboard perhaps also, with passage for sympathetic strings.

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