DHV:
387
Tourin ID:
HER 1
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Barak
Norman
Date:
1689
Label Text:
Barak Norman / London Fecitt / 1689 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Gerald Trimble, Kansas City, MO, 2019-23; Joan Boorstein, Newton, MA, 2002-19; Carol Herman, Claremont, CA, -2002; Michael Heale, Guildford, 1975-77/8; Maurice Card, before 1940-1975; Arnold Dolmetsch, -before 1940
Measurements:
Body Length:
66
String Length:
69.9
Rib Depth:
12.35
Upper Width:
29.7
Middle Width:
22.1
Bottom Width:
35.8
Information
Source:
TGM visit 6/11; Monical appraisal 4/86; M Heale to C Herman 3/79
Literature:
Hebbert 2001, p. 290 (1689:1)
Photographs:
Hebbert 2000, pl. XXII-XXIII (F+B) [probably from Heale]; [by TGM: FB+S body only, table ornament, back center ornament, label (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Restored by Michael Heale 1976-77: new neck, pegbox, and scroll (copied from a BN of 1700); new fingerboard, tailpiece, and pegs, also replacement of not-completely-original ribs of bottom bouts. Oldest one known to Heale (as of 1979). 3-piece table, 2-piece back, both with double purfling; table ornament Type I, back center Type I, upper and lower Type Ia. Fingerboard and tailpiece blond, with inlaid trefoils at bridge ends; FB also has ornament mid-length; pegs blond with white collars and pips. Bridge by Monical; his appraisal gives dimensions 66.0, 29.7/22.2/35.9, 12.3, 70.0. Hebbert dimensions 65.7, 30.2/-/36.0, 12.1, 69.2 (from Heale? pre-restoration?). Repairs and new fingerboard by A. Dipper, 2021.