DHV:
41
Tourin ID:
BARCEL 6
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Barak
Norman
Date:
1714
Label Text:
Barak Norman / at the Bass Violin / St: Pauls Church=yd: / London Fecit / 1714 [printed except 1714]; Barak / Norman / London / Fecit [stamped on table]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
E
Barcelona
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Conservatori Municipal de Música
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
MDMB 413 (formerly 273)
Head:
Male
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Collection Folch i Torres-Baget, -1947
Measurements:
Body Length:
67.5
String Length:
64.5
Rib Depth:
13
Upper Width:
30.4
Middle Width:
22.8
Bottom Width:
37.2
Information
Source:
Escalas 1992, p. 150; PT visit 10/78
Literature:
Hebbert 2001, p. 301 (1714:1); Escalas 1992, p. 150
Photographs:
On museum’s website, via MIMO (front 7/8 [color]); on Wikimedia (front, label [color]); Escalas 1992, p. 150 (front 3/4)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Neck, fingerboard, tailpiece not original (nor pegbox and head?); double purfling front and back; table ornament Type IV; head unusually large.