DHV:
316
Tourin ID:
GLAS 1, GALP 4
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Edward
Lewis
Date:
1690 C
Label Text:
John Betts 1684 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB
Glasgow
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Kelvingrove Museum
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
42-68a
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Robert Glen, Glasgow (d. 1911); (?) Thomas M. Glen, Glasgow (d. 1873)
Measurements:
Body Length:
70
String Length:
66.3
Rib Depth:
12.2
Upper Width:
31.5
Middle Width:
23
Bottom Width:
39.4
Information
Source:
Hebbert 2003b, pp. 39 (L8), 43; Galpin Society 1968, p. 78 (no. 589)
Literature:
Hebbert 2003b, pp. 39 (L8), 43; Galpin Society 1968, p. 78 (no. 589); Farmer 1945, p. 2
Photographs:
Farmer 1945, p. 3 (front)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Fingerboard edged with ivory and ebony, also tailpiece. Table and back inlaid (former design floral, exactly matching METRO 11; latter geometrical); double purfling. “Repaired by John Eadie, Houstoun Near Glasgow, Anno 1854.” Hebbert 2003b, p. 43: “labeled impossibly ‘John Betts...1685’ but is certainly the work of Edward Lewis...” [NB: Lütgendorff gives Betts Sr.’s dates as 1755-1823]; very like Vázquez’s 1684 bass except for table ornament.