DHV:
534
Tourin ID:
LEIPC 13
Size:
Treble
Place Made:
Maker:
NL
Amsterdam
Pieter
Rombouts
Date:
1723 ?
Label Text:
Pieter Rombouts / Amsterdam 1729 [handwritten except 29]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Leipzig
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Universität Leipzig
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
799
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Wilhelm Heyer, Cologne
Measurements:
Body Length:
34
String Length:
35.5
Rib Depth:
8
Upper Width:
16.5
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
20
Information
Source:
Kinsky 1912, 2:447; [PT visit?]
Literature:
Rubardt 1955, p. 74; Schultz 1929, p. 70; Kinsky 1912, 2:450
Photographs:
Heyde 1986, pl. 49c, 50c (head B+S); König 1985, p. 62 (front); Kinsky 1912, 2:447 (front 3/4), 641 (label)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Moens 1994: original neck; carved head similar to Rombouts bass, Hague 410. Kinsky 1912 gives date as 1723 but reproduces label with final digit looking clearly like a 9 (and Lütgendorff says, s.v Rombouts, “Eine Diskant-Gamba von 1729 besitzt W. Heyers Musikhistorisches Museum in Köln”). Tourin’s notes say “we read 1720”; also, “seems completely original,” including neck; table has wide single purfling with raised ridge at edge; “some wood linings and corner blocks, but one corner is linen”; one main brace. König 1985: great resemblance to pardessus by Bertrand.