DHV:
288
Tourin ID:
GENEV 08
Size:
Treble
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Barak
Norman
Date:
1700 C
Label Text:
Barak Norman / Fecit at ye BASS VIOL / St pauls Church Yard / London anno 170- [printed, but not usual typography; last digit perhaps 3]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CH
Geneva
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée d’art et d’histoire
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
IM 10
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Fritz Ernst, Geneva, -1969
Measurements:
Body Length:
38.8
String Length:
35.9
Rib Depth:
6.4
Upper Width:
19.7
Middle Width:
14.2
Bottom Width:
23.8
Information
Source:
S. Mackey to TGM, 2/16; P. Hütmannsberger to TGM, 1/02; R. Laszewski 6/2001; PT visit 10/78
Literature:
Hebbert 2001, p. 311 (X:21)
Photographs:
König 1985, p. 89 (front); museum checklist (F [color]); [unpublished, from S. Mackey 2/16: label (color); from J. Deferne 6/10: front, head side (color); from J. Kraft 9/02: F+S (color)]; [by PT: front (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Table and 1-piece back have no ornament and single purfling. Reddish-brown fingerboard and tailpiece. J. Deferne’s dimensions 38.0, 19.5/14.3/23.7, 6.6, 38.0; R. Laszewski’s (sent 6/2001, made in 1984) 38.5, 19.2/13.8/23.5, 6.5, 37.0 (with bridge at 3/4 of C-holes).