DHV:
597
Tourin ID:
METRO 08
Size:
Tenor
Place Made:
Maker:
I ?
Date:
16..
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
New York, NY
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
89.4.2227
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
53.9
String Length:
52.2
Rib Depth:
10.7
Upper Width:
27.5
Middle Width:
19
Bottom Width:
32.3
Information
Source:
TGM visit 5/01; PT visit 12/78
Literature:
Monical 1989a, p. 15; Monical 1979, p. 9; Brown 1902, p.65
Photographs:
On museum’s website (back, bass C-hole); Monical 1989a, p. 15 (F+S); Monical 1979, pp. 8 (F+S), 20 (head side); Brown 1902, facing p. 64 (front 3/4)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Monical 1979: unaltered except bass bar, bridge, soundpost; “lyra viol.” Tourin: 3-piece table. Repair label: “Giovanni Cavani / di Spilamberto (Modena) / Fece l’anno 1899”. Restored 1938 (badly worm-eaten). Designs on fingerboard and tailpiece are inked, not inlaid. Extremely wide C-holes. Prominent knot in wood of table, halfway between end of fingerboard and bass edge. 2-piece table with wings, 2-piece back, both with single purfling.