DHV:
34
Tourin ID:
BAINE 6
Size:
Violone
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Nuremberg
Ernst
Busch ?
Date:
16..
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
GB
Bohortha, Cornwall
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Francis Baines, London
Measurements:
Body Length:
079.0
String Length:
079.5
Rib Depth:
17.5
Upper Width:
43.2
Middle Width:
29.4
Bottom Width:
49.9
Information
Source:
R. Eyland to TGM, 9/13; PT visit 6/77
Literature:
Photographs:
Selected publicity photos at www.fretwork.co.uk, seen 9/13: front [color]; [unpublished, in Heale Archive: front]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
2 dimples on each lower bout; ornaments at all 6 corners. Rosette; very long soundholes with only lower eyes. Heale wrote on back of photo: “Large bass viol (G?) / F. Baines 1989.” Probably Nuremberg origin. R. Eyland: seen and measured in 1978. Has been shortened by about 7 cm at top of body (purfling runs off edge on both front and back); scroll and pegbox seem original, but neck is newer. Back and ribs of bird’s-eye maple except one lower bout plain with painted birds-eyes (!), so probably a replacement. Double purfling on table, single on back, both with knot patterns. Length and widths are actual (not over arching); he gives his copies a SL of 87 cm. Rosette with eagle and soundholes similar to Hiltz bass at V+A (VIC 8), though those have been altered; floral decoration on sides of scroll resembles that on Busch instruments shown in a Strad article. (On website he says “Although unlabeled, this instrument is almost certainly the work of Ernst Busch of Nuremberg.”) (Busch active from 1622; died in 1648.)