DHV:
832
Tourin ID:
STOCK 32
Size:
Violone
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Nuremberg
Ernst
Busch
Date:
16..
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
S
Stockholm
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Swedish Museum of Performing Arts
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
M986
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Carl Claudius, Copenhagen, -1924
Measurements:
Body Length:
084.9
String Length:
083.0
Rib Depth:
17.6
Upper Width:
42.4
Middle Width:
29.4
Bottom Width:
49.3
Information
Source:
Museum website; museum to TGM, 4/04; Martius & Schulze 1991, pp. 174, 181; PT visit 10/78
Literature:
Martius & Schulze 1991, pp. 174, 181
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front); [unpublished, from museum, 4/04: FB+S, head front, scroll only]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Martius & Schulze 1991: table has rosette of bird’s-eye maple (lion holding coat of arms); 3-piece back with ornaments at corners; this and ribs of bird’s-eye maple; neck of mahogany, dovetailed into top block; fingerboard and tailpiece not original; dimensions 153.0, 87.5, 42.7/29.5/49.5, 17.6, 83.5; all their info from Christian Brosse, Borstorf. Tourin: Hellwig restoration, new neck, metal endpin; table with double purfling plus 6 patterns at corners, rosette, high arching; 3-piece back with single purfling; dimensions 87.0, 42.4/29.5/49.4, 18.5, 83.0? Repair label: “Otto Sand / Kungl. Hovinstrumentmakare / Oxtorsgatan 9A — Tel. 21 01 84 / Rep. 1947”. Photos: back and sides of bird’s-eye maple; grotesque face carved into front of scroll. Museum’s website: “attribution [to Busch] by Peter Tourin”. (Closely resembles Copenhagen 280/KOPEA 32, but not other Busch violones.) (Busch active from 1622; died in 1648.)