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DHV:
722
Tourin ID:
PARIS 32

Size:

Pardessus

Place Made:

Maker:

F

Mirecourt

Nicolas

Chappuy

Date:

17..

Label Text:

N. CHAPPUY [stamped at top of back]

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

F

Paris

No. of Strings:

5

Collection:

Musée de la musique

Sound Holes:

C

Catalog Number:

E.0019

Head:

Female

Private Owner:

Previous Owner:

Measurements:

Body Length:

33

String Length:

31?

Rib Depth:

4.4

Upper Width:

15.6

Middle Width:

Bottom Width:

19.5

Information

Source:

TGM visit 9/09; museum’s website; PT visits 6/77 & 9/78

Literature:

Photographs:

On museum’s website (FB+S, head side); [by TGM: name stamp (color)]

Recordings:

Auctions:

Comments:

Arched back with single purfling and recurve; table with double purfling and some recurve. Neck broken off, otherwise intact. Pegbox has “roller-coaster” front edges, back surface with one point; no carving, just perimeter lines. 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side; tailgut. Website: “quinton de viole”; formerly pardessus; repaired by Baucheron in Paris, 1936. (Nicolas Chappuy active 1733-81.)

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