DHV:
286
Tourin ID:
GENEV 06
Size:
Treble ?
Place Made:
Maker:
CZ
Breslau
Andreas
Ostler
Date:
173
Label Text:
Andreas Ostler, Lauten- und Geigen- / macher in Breßlau 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 08
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Fritz Ernst, Geneva, -1969
Measurements:
Body Length:
38.3
String Length:
Rib Depth:
4.9
Upper Width:
18.5
Middle Width:
13
Bottom Width:
24
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Museum checklist (F [color]); [unpublished, from A.-M. Huwyler 9/24: label (color); [by PT: front (color)]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:
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 (and Brussels 1388 is another, 6+6, SL 35, dated 1730). Huwyler (4/24): “Corps viole d’amour original avec cordes sympathiques”; (9/24): neck, pegbox, and scroll fromlate 19/early 20C, for conversion to treble viol; back widths 18.7/13.0/24.0.