DHV:
780
Tourin ID:
SAVALL 5
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Barak
Norman
Date:
1697
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
E
Barcelona
No. of Strings:
7
Collection:
Savall, Jordi
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Head
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Dolmetsch family, -c. 1972
Measurements:
Body Length:
72.3
String Length:
69
Rib Depth:
12.4
Upper Width:
32.5
Middle Width:
24.4
Bottom Width:
39.5
Information
Source:
P. Hütmannsberger, 6/94
Literature:
Hebbert 2001, p. 295 (1697:3)
Photographs:
Savall 2000 (front [color]); Savall 1998 (front 7/8 [color]); Savall 1992 (front [color]); [unpublished, from P. Hütmannsberger: FB+S, soundholes, table ornament (color)]
Recordings:
Savall 2000 (Bach II); Savall 1998a (La Folia); Savall 1998 (Les Voix Humaines); Savall 1992 (Sainte Colombe); Savall 1992a (Marais III); Savall 1991 (Jenkins); Savall 1987 (Marais V); Savall 1983 (Hume); Savall 1980 (Gibbons); Savall 1980a (Coprario); Savall 1979 (Marais I); Savall 1978 (Forqueray); Savall 1978a (Bach I); Savall 1978c (Scheidt); Savall 1976b (Sainte Colombe); Savall 1976a (Couperin, played by Ariane Maurette)
Auctions:
Comments:
Double purfling front and back. Rib depth 12.9 at fold, 13.2 at center bout, only 12.4 at bottom block. Hebbert 2001: “reverted to viol [i.e. from cello] by Dolmetsch”; other sources say 7th string added for Savall. Table ornament Type IV, back center Type III, upper and lower Type II.