DHV:
697
Tourin ID:
PARIS 06
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London (Southwark)
Henry
Jaye
Date:
1624
Label Text:
HENRY • JAYE • IN • / SOUTHWARKE • / 1624 [handwritten; last digit could also be 7]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F
Paris
No. of Strings:
7
Collection:
Musée de la musique
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
E.0073 (formerly C.171)
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Louis Clapisson, Paris, -1861
Measurements:
Body Length:
63
String Length:
64.5
Rib Depth:
11.5
Upper Width:
29
Middle Width:
21
Bottom Width:
35.6
Information
Source:
Museum’s website; PT visits 6/77 & 9/78
Literature:
Fleming 2007, p. 30 (JP 13); Topham 2003, pp. 134-35; Fleming 2001: VME 24; Gétreau 1996, p. 643; Otterstedt 1994, pp. 151-2; Chouquet 1884, p. 38
Photographs:
On museum’s website (FB+S, head side; front 7/8, head 3/4 [color]); Fleming & Bryan 2016, p. 67 (label); MacCracken 2011, p. 69 (FB+S); Fleming 2001: VME F24 (front body only), L30 (rosette), L96 (label) [all color]; König 1985, pp. 94-95 (front, head FB+S); [? by PT: FB+S (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Otterstedt 1994: 5-piece table; changed to 7-string probably in 17th-C. France, perhaps by Colichon [Muthesius 1996, p. 43, disagrees]; back joint is off-center; neck carefully lengthened, widened, and fingerboard angle increased by inserting various pieces of wood, preserving original decoration of pegbox and neck foot (see drawing p. 152); new fingerboard and tailpiece, new bass bar set diagonally; body length 64.5 [sic?]. Drawing by Pierre Jacquier (1978) available from museum. Fleming 2001 gives date as 1627; 7-piece table with rosette; double purfling front and back; dimensions 62.7, 28.9/22.0/35.6, 11.7, -. On display 8/02: double purfling includes C-holes; pegs open-carved in center of heads; currently no strings, bridge, or tailpiece. Topham 2003: youngest growth ring of center stave is 1617 (for next on left, 1576; for next on right, 1502); no dendrochronological relationship between staves.