DHV:
296
Tourin ID:
GENEV 16
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Barak
Norman
Date:
1696
Label Text:
BN monogram in center of back
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CH
Geneva
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée d’art et d’histoire
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
IM 20
Head:
Male
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Fritz Ernst, Geneva, -1969
Measurements:
Body Length:
72.1
String Length:
68.6
Rib Depth:
12.8
Upper Width:
33.5
Middle Width:
25.1
Bottom Width:
40.2
Information
Source:
A.-M. Huwyler to TGM 9/24; PT visit 10/78
Literature:
Hebbert 2001, p. 293 (1696:3)
Photographs:
On museum’s website (FB+S [color]); museum checklist (F [color]); König, pp. 89-92 (front, head FB+S); from undated museum postcard (front [color]); [unpublished, from MB Winn 3/13: front full length, C-bouts with table ornament (color)]; [by PT: front (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Table with double purfling (single around C-holes); geometrical decoration on ribs. Neck possibly original, “but wedged back and modified several times.” Table ornament Type V; back center BN monogram, upper Type IIIa (top), lower Type III. Huwyler back widths 33.0/24.2/40.5.