DHV:
912
Tourin ID:
YALE 02
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
Date:
17.. ?
Label Text:
[None]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
New Haven, CT
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Yale University
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
4667.00 (formerly 33)
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Morris Steinert
Measurements:
Body Length:
68.3
String Length:
66.7
Rib Depth:
12.4
Upper Width:
30.2
Middle Width:
23
Bottom Width:
37.5
Information
Source:
TGM visit, 10/93; PT visits
Literature:
Marcuse 1960
Photographs:
On museum’s website (FB+S [color]); Marcuse 1960, pl. 15 (front); Steinert 1893, p. 160 (front)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
3-piece table, 2-piece back, both with inked double purfling (single around C-holes). Floral table ornament only outlined; diamond patterns on back at bottom and below fold (with arrows pointing inward) and in center (with arrows pointing NSEW). Fingerboard and tailpiece honey-colored, with dark perimeter lines connecting to diamond-arrow patterns at bridge ends. Neck screwed on from outside; graft between head and pegbox, but none to neck. Bridge has been up to 1.5 cm closer to fingerboard; action high when seen; no frets, but marks on neck indicate former presence. Hookbar has plugged hole for endpin. Significant damage to bass-side ribs.YALE UNIVERSITY carved on back below button. Heavy instrument. Marcuse: School of Barak Norman, with later neck and fittings (Steinert: “of Italian make”; shown with 4 strings). Pringle: body typical of Norman; head definitely not. Tourin: large C holes, modern neck. Website: Barak Norman, 2-piece table, “crude” varnish, “very crude” pegbox with woman’s head grafted onto it; dimensions 68.2, 30.0/22.8/37.5, 12.7, 65.8