DHV:
791
Tourin ID:
SHRIN 7
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Brescia
Gasparo da Salo
Bertolotti
Date:
1580 C ?
Label Text:
Gasparo da Salo, In Brescia [printed]
Body Shape:
(Cello)
Current Location:
USA
Vermillion, SD
No. of Strings:
-4
Collection:
National Music Museum
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
3378
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Laurence Witten, Southport, CT, -1984; J & A Beare, Ltd., London, -1963; purchased by C. Beare’s father at a Puttick & Simpson auction.
Measurements:
Body Length:
77.6
String Length:
Rib Depth:
10.2
Upper Width:
34.7
Middle Width:
25.7
Bottom Width:
44.6
Information
Source:
TGM visit 6/95
Literature:
Banks 1984, p. 16
Photographs:
On museum’s website (FB+S, FB+S body only, head FB+S, neck heel, bottom rib, label, purfling details, etc. [color]); Banks 1984, pp. 17-9 (F+B, side 3/4); Witten 1975, p. 18
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Converted to a cello (in 19th C.?) with additional wood to make pointed corners, etc.; original cornerless body shape still visible, also 6 plugged peg holes. Table of Haselfichte; arched back; overhanging ribs. Date “before 1609” (Banks 1984). Website dimensions: 77.3, 34.5/25.7/44.4, 10.2, 66.8; Banks dimensions: 79.2, 33/-/39, 11, -. Tourin: original signature and head.