DHV:
920
Tourin ID:
YALE 11
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
B
Brussels
Charles
Hautstont
Date:
1903
Label Text:
Carolus Hautstont / Fecit Bruxelles 1903 [handwritten in ink on wood inside back]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
New Haven, CT
No. of Strings:
6+12
Collection:
Yale University
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
4673.60 (formerly 283)
Head:
Male
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Belle Skinner, Holyoke, Mass. (No. 54)
Measurements:
Body Length:
68.8
String Length:
67.5
Rib Depth:
11.6
Upper Width:
31.9
Middle Width:
22.7
Bottom Width:
41.0
Information
Source:
TGM visit 10/93
Literature:
Skinner 1933, p. 127
Photographs:
On museum’s website (FB+S [color]); [by TGM: FB+S]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
12 sympathetic strings; arched back. Soundholes have additional circular hole inside curve, below notches. Neck butt narrower than shoulders; pegbox grafted to neck and to head. Neck barely holds 6 strings; no frets. Repair inscription: N.J. Ericssen / Holyoke, 1926 [handwritten on wood inside back]