DHV:
584
Tourin ID:
LUZ 6
Size:
Treble ?
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Augsburg
Georg
Aman
Date:
1705
Label Text:
Georg Aman, Lauten- / und Geigen-Macher, in / Augspurg, 1705 [printed except 05]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CH
Willisau
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Musikinstrumentensammlung Willisau
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
4
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Richard-Wagner-Museum, Lucerne, 1943-2010; Henry Schuhmacher, Lucerne, and heirs (before 1903- ); on loan from his family
Measurements:
Body Length:
42
String Length:
40.8
Rib Depth:
6.8
Upper Width:
21
Middle Width:
15.2
Bottom Width:
25
Information
Source:
Roosen 2001, pp. 44-47; PT visit 9/78
Literature:
Roosen 2001, pp. 44-47
Photographs:
Roosen 2001, pp. 47-48 (FB+S, head 3/4; all color); [by PT: front (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Roosen 2001: Alt-Viola da gamba. 2-piece table with recurve and single purfling; small, heart-shaped rosette; 1-piece, slab-cut back with 2 small wings, no purfling. Neck made of birch, with rounded profile, and consists of several pieces; lion head resembles those of Stainer. 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side (top one not original, and its hole probably drilled in modern times); no frets. Has undergone some restoration; fingerboard and tailpiece probably not original. Perhaps an arm-viol or viola d’amore without sympathetic strings. Tourin’s dimensions: 77.0, 42.0, 21.2/15.1/25.1, 7.4, 40-41.