DHV:
44
Tourin ID:
BASEL 2
Size:
Pardessus
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Mirecourt
Jean-Sebastien
Bourdot
Date:
1742
Label Text:
Sebastien Bourdot / a mircourt 1742 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CH
Basel
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Historisches Museum
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
1927.265
Head:
Male
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Maurice Bedot-Diodati, Geneva
Measurements:
Body Length:
31.4
String Length:
29.6
Rib Depth:
3.8
Upper Width:
14.6
Middle Width:
10.4
Bottom Width:
18.4
Information
Source:
Klaus 1997, p. 53; PT visits 6/77 & 10/78
Literature:
Herzog 2003, QT-24, QT-97; Klaus 1997, p. 53; Vannes 1999, p. 39
Photographs:
[Unpublished, from museum (M. Kirnbauer) 9/15: front 3/4 (color)]; [by PT: head front (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Tourin: quinton; 2-piece table with C-holes and single purfling; 1-piece arched back with no purfling; no overhanging edges; violin-type neck, very narrow fingerboard, no sign of frets; bearded old man’s head; tailgut. Klaus: viol outline with overhanging edges and arched back but C-holes: “Quinton (?)”; “Korpusmischform”. 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side. Vannes 1951 gives date as 1772, but Jacquot says documents confirm his activity from 1728 only until 1766. “Réparé par Fischesser frères / Luthiers a Genève 1888”. Tourin dimensions 31.4, 14.8/10.6/18.5, 4.4, 29.5-30.0.