DHV:
792
Tourin ID:
SHRIN 8
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Date:
1720 C
Label Text:
[None]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Vermillion, SD
No. of Strings:
Collection:
National Music Museum
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
3434
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Laurence Witten, Southport, CT, 1968/9-1984; Leandro Bisiach, Milan
Measurements:
Body Length:
67
String Length:
Rib Depth:
10.8
Upper Width:
32.8
Middle Width:
22.5
Bottom Width:
40.3
Information
Source:
TGM visit 6/95
Literature:
Banks 1984, p. 24
Photographs:
On museum’s website (detached table, back, ribs, and scroll seen from front and back [color]); [unpublished, from museum: detached table]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Disassembled (ribs in 6 pieces), no neck; scroll and 4-holed pegbox probably not original. Crude work, clearly later than other Italian viols in Witten-Rawlins Collection. Website dimensions: 66.8, 32.5/22.1/39.9, 10.9, - (stop length 37.2); Banks dimensions: 68, 31.5/-/34.85, 11, -.