DHV:
755
Tourin ID:
ROM 3
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Landshut
Johann Ulrich
Fischer
Date:
1720
Label Text:
Johann Ulrich / Fischer Laudt und / [Geig?] macher / in Lands- / [hut] ----- 1720 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
CDN
Toronto, ON
No. of Strings:
6+6
Collection:
Royal Ontario Museum
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
913.4.32
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
R. S. Williams, Toronto, -1913; Edward John Payne, -1904
Measurements:
Body Length:
71.5
String Length:
70.5
Rib Depth:
12.9
Upper Width:
32.4
Middle Width:
23.1
Bottom Width:
42.5
Information
Source:
TGM visit 1/07; PT visit 10/78; Cselenyi 1971, p. 13
Literature:
Catch 1997, p. 132; Young 1980, p. 124; Cselenyi 1971, p. 13; Payne 1889, pp. 101, 103
Photographs:
Young 1980, p. 124 (front 3/4, head side); Cselenyi 1971, p. 13 (front 3/4, head side); [by TGM: FB+S, label (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Center bout delimited by 2 inner (rather than outer) corners, with undulations between them; middle body widths 23.1 at upper corner, 24.5 at waist, 28.0 at lower corner. 2-piece (?) table with medium to wide grain, slight recurve, and vertical soundholes; 2-piece, slab-cut back with no clear fold line; no purfling on front or back. Tuning pins for sympathetic strings set in a metal plate at back of (fluted) pegbox, likely not original; neck set at angle and has rounded profile, unfretted when seen. Bridge seen does not belong to instrument (has grooves for only 5 strings); fingerboard and tailpiece of solid ebony. 2 nail holes in top block; upper and lower back braces; back center joint has parchment lining with Latin text. Sturdily built and in relatively good condition despite some worm damage to ribs. Cselenyi 1971: viola bastarda; neck not original; label read as “Johann Ulrich von Lautter...in...fecit at anno 1770 [partially illegible]” (with surname and date both incorrect).