DHV:
888
Tourin ID:
VIC 12, KENS 8
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
Date:
Label Text:
Gasparo da Salo in Brescia
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB
London
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Victoria & Albert Museum
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
167-1882
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Carl Engel (in 1876)
Measurements:
Body Length:
66
String Length:
63.5
Rib Depth:
13.5
Upper Width:
31
Middle Width:
23.5
Bottom Width:
35.5
Information
Source:
PT visit 6/77
Literature:
Museum website (front 3/4); Hellwig 1980, p. 314; Baines 1968, p. 7; Mucchi 1940, p. 203; Engel 1876, p. 69
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front 3/4, head 3/4, fingerboard [color]); Hellwig 2011, p. 355 (fingerboard [color]); Woodfield and Robinson 1980, 19:800, fig. 11b (front 7/8); Baines 1968, fig. 5 (front 7/8); Mucchi 1940, pl. XXXIV (front); Engel 1876, p. 69; Engel 1872, p. 23 (no. 170)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Composite instrument. Pegbox grafted to neck; modern tailpiece of ivory. Fingerboard by Tielke (Hellwig 1980, no. 129, c. 1708; Hellwig 2011, TieWV 147, c. 1704), with tortoiseshell marquetry on ivory veneer: reverse-color counterpart of TieWV 146. Display label 10/01: “body has been variously attributed to Richard Meares...and Michel Colichon....” Website: “It is uncertain whether, in its current form, this was used seriously as a playing instrument or was just treated as an ornament to hang on a wall. ... Date: ca. 1850 (assembled)” Fat C-holes, placed high; single thick, black purfling; coin-sized hole in lower treble rib.