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DHV:
400
Tourin ID:
INNS 11

Size:

Bass

Place Made:

Maker:

A

Rattenberg

Christoph II

Klingler

Date:

1683

Label Text:

Christoph Klingler / in Rattenberg 1683 [handwritten]

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

A

Innsbruck

No. of Strings:

7

Collection:

Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum

Sound Holes:

C

Catalog Number:

248

Head:

Faun

Private Owner:

Previous Owner:

Dr. Erich Fiala, Vienna, -1972

Measurements:

Body Length:

69.4

String Length:

Rib Depth:

12.5

Upper Width:

32.7

Middle Width:

23

Bottom Width:

39.7

Information

Source:

PT visit 9/78, including museum data sheet

Literature:

Watchorn 2007, p. 121; Egg n.d., p. 38; Ferdinandeum 1915, p. 9 (A19)

Photographs:

On museum’s website (FB+S, head front and side, rosette [color]); [by PT: front (color)]

Recordings:

Harnoncourt 1957 (Bach Sonatas)

Auctions:

Comments:

Neck, fingerboard, and tailpiece new; pegbox original (probably for only 6 strings). Rosette. Converted to a cello c. 1800; apparently restored to viol in 1944 (repair label: “Repariert von Josef Krenn / Geigenmacher / in Wien 1944” [printed]; but Watchorn 2007, p. 121, says in 1937). Museum’s website calls this the only extant instrument by this maker.

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