DHV:
822
Tourin ID:
STOCK 21
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
S
Stockholm
Petter
Hellstedt
Date:
1749
Label Text:
No. 176 / P. Hellstedt / Fecit Holmia / 1749
Body Shape:
VIol
Current Location:
S
Stockholm
No. of Strings:
-4
Collection:
Swedish Museum of Performing Arts
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
M643
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Miss Meyersson, Stockholm, -1920
Measurements:
Body Length:
61
String Length:
60
Rib Depth:
11.4
Upper Width:
30.8
Middle Width:
21.1
Bottom Width:
37.9
Information
Source:
Museum website; museum to TGM, 4/04; PT visit 10/78 [not seen]
Literature:
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front); [unpublished, from museum, 4/04: FB+S]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Converted to a cello; but back still faceted at neck (clear graft line to new neck heel). Very small soundholes, with lower eyes much larger than upper (damaged?) Perhaps cut down, as body length and depth much less than sister instrument from 1757, but widths very similar. Website string length 59.0-60.0.