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DHV:
286
Tourin ID:
GENEV 06
Size:
Treble ?
Place Made:
Maker:
CZ
Breslau
Andreas
Ostler
Date:
173
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CH
Geneva
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée d’art et d’histoire
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
IM 08
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Fritz Ernst, Geneva, -1969
Measurements:
Body Length:
String Length:
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
Information
Source:
PT visit 10/78
Literature:
Photographs:
Museum checklist (F [color]); [by PT: front (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Display photo shows chin rest; Tourin: thin ribs, black edging to table. Probably a viola d’amore without sympathetic strings: Köpp 2000, pp. 147-48, mentions and illustrates such an instrument, dated 1714, BL 40.2, privately owned.
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