DHV:
300
Tourin ID:
GENEV 20
Size:
Violone
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Nuremberg
Ernst
Busch
Date:
16..
Label Text:
Ernst Busch / in Nürnberg [printed; no date visible; probably not original]
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
CH
Geneva
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée d’art et d’histoire
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
IM 22
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Fritz Ernst, Geneva, -1969; acquired 1930 in Munich
Measurements:
Body Length:
88.6
String Length:
Rib Depth:
18.2
Upper Width:
44.4
Middle Width:
30.7
Bottom Width:
49.9
Information
Source:
A.-M. Huwyler to TGM 9/24; Martius & Schulze 1991, pp. 174, 181 (their info from museum + postcard)
Literature:
Martius & Schulze 1991, pp. 174, 181
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+B [color]) and checklist (F [color]); König 1985, p. 89 (front); [unpublished, from MB Winn 3/13: front (color); from A.-M. Huwyler 9/24: label (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Not in museum at time of Tourin’s visit, 10/78. Martius & Schulze 1991: double purfling on table, overhanging edges front and back, neck not original; information from the museum and a postcard photo. Dimensions (from museum + postcard, evidently only to nearest 0.5 cm) 89.0, 44.0/29.0/50.0, 19.5, 87.5. Museum checklist photo also gives body length as 87.5; shows wooden endpin; says wood is walnut or chestnut. Martius & Schulze: label is handwritten (but Huwyler’s photo proves it’s printed) with date of 1615 (not visible in photo, and too early: Busch only active from 1622), but his authorship is believable. Huwyler back widths 43.8/30.0/49.6.