DHV:
653
Tourin ID:
NEU 3
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Munich
Paul
Alletsee
Date:
1715 ?
Label Text:
Paulus Alletsee Hof / Lauten und Geigen / macher in München / 17.. [printed except last two digits, possibly “15”]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Washington, DC
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Smithsonian Institution
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
2000.0276.02
Head:
Male
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Roger & Sue Ellen Johnson, Lock Haven, Pa., -2000; [by bequest from] Karl (and Editha) Neumann, [Ohio, Pittsburgh, and] Hattiesburg, Miss.
Measurements:
Body Length:
64.3
String Length:
66.8
Rib Depth:
12.2
Upper Width:
30.8
Middle Width:
22.4
Bottom Width:
37.7
Information
Source:
TGM visit 11/01; Neumann to PT 3/77
Literature:
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+B 3/4 [color]); [by TGM: FB+S, head FB+S (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Neck by G. Kellischek, c. 1972 (Neumann to Tourin, who also says the last two digits of the date “are hard to read ... probably 1712”). 2-piece table with rosette and narrow double purfling; 2-piece back with no purfling. Large, plain pegbox has plugged 7th hole; tailpiece still has 7 holes; it and fingerboard are of rosewood with scalloped diagonal ends nearest bridge. Now has wire tailgut, but formerly a hookbar. Monical (letter to Smithsonian, 12/00): head old but not original; rosette and label plausibly genuine. Monical’s dimensions: 63.6, 31.0/22.5/37.9, 12.3, 66.1; Tourin’s dimensions, converted from inches: 63.5, 31.0/23.2/38.1, 12.4, 67.0.