DHV:
299
Tourin ID:
GENEV 19
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Cremona
Stephanus
De Fantis
Date:
1551
Label Text:
Stephanus FANTIS / 1551 [or 1571?]
Body Shape:
Guitar
Current Location:
CH
Geneva
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée d’art et d’histoire
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
IM 293
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Fritz Ernst, Geneva, -1969
Measurements:
Body Length:
63
String Length:
Rib Depth:
9.2
Upper Width:
29
Middle Width:
22
Bottom Width:
35.5
Information
Source:
S. Mackey to TGM, 2/16; J. Deferne to TGM, 2/10; PT visit 10/78
Literature:
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front [color]); museum checklist (F [color]); [by PT: front (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Tourin: New neck. Deferne: Arched back; modern fingerboard. Mackey: body seems the correct age for the label, though neck, pegbox, heel, top block, and bassbar are all replacements. F-holes not original, cut into belly patches; may have been inward-facing C-holes. Back is distorted along its length, probably because of the direction of cut in the wood; has a processional hole, now plugged, about one third from the top with scratches from the hook.