DHV:
583
Tourin ID:
LUZ 5
Size:
Pardessus
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Strasbourg
Johann Christoph I
Vetter
Date:
1741
Label Text:
Jean Christophe Cousin / à Strasbourg 1741 / Johann Christoff Vetter / in Straßburg [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CH
Willisau
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musikinstrumentensammlung Willisau
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
6 (formerly 80)
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Richard-Wagner-Museum, Lucerne, 1943-2010; Henry Schuhmacher, Lucerne, and heirs (before 1903-1943); acquired in St. Gall
Measurements:
Body Length:
31.7
String Length:
29.8
Rib Depth:
6.8
Upper Width:
14.8
Middle Width:
11.1
Bottom Width:
18.9
Information
Source:
Roosen 2001, pp. 54-55; PT visit 9/78
Literature:
Roosen 2001, pp. 54-55; Vannes 1956, p. 17
Photographs:
Roosen 2001, p. 56 (FB+S, head 3/4; all color); Vannes 1956, label no. 348
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
2-piece table with single purfling; 2-piece back with inlay on center joint but none around perimeter. No crossbars; wooden lining of back center joint, but table joint and back fold have linen. Head and pegbox integral with neck (fruitwood); no frets. Visible wear marks on treble side of fingerboard. Tourin’s dimensions: 31.7, 14.8/11.0/18.8, 7.2, 30.0 Label said to be illustrated in Paul de Wit, Geigenzettel alter Meister vom 16. bis zur Mitte des 19. Jhs. (Leipzig, 1910; R/ Frankfurt/M, 1976 = Das Musikinstrument 29), vol. 2, Tafel 36, nr. 56 (Roosen, p. 6, n. 8).