DHV:
40
Tourin ID:
BARCEL 5
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Barak
Norman
Date:
1713 ?
Label Text:
Barak Norman / at the Bass Violin] / St. Pauls Church=yd / London Fecit / 17 (13?) [printed]; Barak / Norman / London / Fecit [stamped on table]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
E
Barcelona
No. of Strings:
-4
Collection:
Conservatori Municipal de Música
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
MDMB 412 (formerly 272)
Head:
Female?
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Collection Folch i Torres-Baget, -1947
Measurements:
Body Length:
62.4
String Length:
59
Rib Depth:
11.7
Upper Width:
28.4
Middle Width:
21.1
Bottom Width:
34.3
Information
Source:
Escalas 1992, pp. 149-50; PT visit 10/78
Literature:
Hebbert 2001, pp. 307-08 (X:04); Escalas 1992, pp. 149-50
Photographs:
On museum’s website, via MIMO (front [color]); on Wikimedia (front 3/4 [color]); Escalas 1992, p. 149 (front 3/4)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Now a cello; soundholes originally Cs (outlines still visible); table ornament type V; double purfling front and back; head and part of pegbox original. (MIMO description of head: “un cap d’adolescent amb cabells llargs” = an adolescent with long hair.)