DHV:
807
Tourin ID:
STOCK 06
Size:
Treble ?
Place Made:
Maker:
PL
Danzig
Christoph
Meyer
Date:
1685
Label Text:
Christof. Meyer / In Danzig 1685
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
S
Stockholm
No. of Strings:
-4
Collection:
Swedish Museum of Performing Arts
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
M223
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Royal Swedish Academy of Music, -1902
Measurements:
Body Length:
33.5
String Length:
31.5
Rib Depth:
4.2
Upper Width:
15.3
Middle Width:
10.8
Bottom Width:
19.4
Information
Source:
Museum website; museum to TGM, 4/04; PT visit 10/78
Literature:
Lütgendorff 1922, 2:330; Svanberg 1902, p. 23
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front); [unpublished, from museum, 4/04: FB+S, head front 3/4]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Lütgendorff 1922: [back?], ribs and neck of ebony; ivory relief on table, depicting Orpheus among wild beasts [mostly hidden by end of fingerboard]. Photos: rosette; black-and-white edging to table, fingerboard, tailpiece, and pegbox; heart-shaped cutout at end of fingerboard, plus two more in tailpiece, with diagonal top edge. Head is a black female bust wearing a shawl but with bare breasts; relief carving on back of pegbox. Initials K M A (= Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien] at top of back. Letter of 4/64 from Günther Hellwig to museum: “Ich bin felsenfest davon überzeugt, dass es eine Viola da braccio ist, wie der Hals wohl eindeutig beweist.” Tourin: arm viol. (K. Köpp would probably say viola d’amore.) Website string length 31.0-31.5.