DHV:
48
Tourin ID:
BASEL 6
Size:
Violone
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Milan
Pietro Antonio
Bellone
Date:
1661
Label Text:
Pierantonio Bellone / Mediolani Anno 1661 [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CH
Basel
No. of Strings:
7+5
Collection:
Historisches Museum
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
1956.532
Head:
Male
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Otto Lobeck, Appenzell, -1951
Measurements:
Body Length:
084.4
String Length:
077.1
Rib Depth:
15.2
Upper Width:
37.7
Middle Width:
26.3
Bottom Width:
50.4
Information
Source:
Klaus 1997, p. 52; PT visits 6/77 & 10/78
Literature:
Klaus 1997, p. 52
Photographs:
Küllmer 1986, p. 178 (head front); [by PT: front (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Sympathetic strings (only 5 now; originally 7?). Gilt head. 4 pegs treble, 3 bass side. Klaus: 2-piece table and back; overhanging edges. Küllmer: viola bastarda, French, early 18th C.; her dimensions 84, 38/27/50, 15.5, 78. Sympathetic string length also 78, and distance from bridge to bottom saddle 39; hitchpins just inside pegbox, above nut. Tourin: neck and pegbox not original? Tourin dimensions 84.5, 37.8/27.0/50.5, 16.4, 77.0-80.0.