DHV:
769
Tourin ID:
RUH 10
Size:
Pardessus
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Benoist
Fleury
Date:
1745
Label Text:
Benoist Fleury / a Paris 1745 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Niederaltaich
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Ruhland, Konrad [heirs]
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Konrad Ruhland, Niederaltaich (Germany), -2014; Walter Hamma, Stuttgart
Measurements:
Body Length:
33.8
String Length:
30.6
Rib Depth:
5.2
Upper Width:
15.6
Middle Width:
11.2
Bottom Width:
18.8
Information
Source:
M. Ruhland to TGM, 10+11/23; K. Ruhland to TGM, 12/03
Literature:
Photographs:
[Unpublished, from owner: front, head front (color)]
Recordings:
Eckert 2002 (Lendormy)
Auctions:
Comments:
Table has double purfling, may be 1-piece; back is 2-piece. Fingerboard and tailpiece cut on diagonal at ends closest to bridge; they and pegs are new, in palisander/rosewood. 3 pegs treble, 2 bass side.