DHV:
787
Tourin ID:
SHRIN 3
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Venice
Date:
1540 C
Label Text:
David Tecchler Liutaro / Fecit Romae Anno 1723 [printed except 23]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Vermillion, SD
No. of Strings:
3
Collection:
National Music Museum
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
3375
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Laurence Witten, Southport, CT, 1968/9-1984; Leandro Bisiach, Milan
Measurements:
Body Length:
67.5
String Length:
78.0
Rib Depth:
12.2
Upper Width:
32.4
Middle Width:
24.1
Bottom Width:
34.2
Information
Source:
TGM visit 6/95
Literature:
Banks 1984, pp. 8-10
Photographs:
On museum’s website: FB+S, F+B body only, head FB+S, bottom rib, neck heel, soundhole details [color]); Pio 2011, pp. 148-49 (FB+S, head FB+S [color]); Banks 1984, p. 9 (front 3/4)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Original condition; table and back overhang ribs. One-piece table, now sunken between F-holes. One-piece back and ribs are walnut. Thick, rounded neck, not in line with ribs. No back braces at all, even for soundpost. Banks dimensions: 69.5, 31.3/-/33.5, 12.7, -. Website dimensions: -, 31.3/23.9/34.7, 12.1, 75-79; Tourin dimensions 122, 66.5, 33/24/34.5, 13, 75; no soundpost; glued-in bass bar.