DHV:
952
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Barak
Norman
Date:
Label Text:
Barak Norman London Fecit [stamped on table]; BN monogram in center of back
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB
Manchester
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Royal Northern College of Music
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
V34
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Charles Hughes, Manchester, -1906
Measurements:
Body Length:
63
String Length:
64.5?
Rib Depth:
11.6
Upper Width:
28.9
Middle Width:
20.9
Bottom Width:
35.2
Information
Source:
Waterhouse 2010, pp. 146-47; TGM visit 10/01; Waterhouse 1998; Bevan 1990, pp. 89-90
Literature:
Waterhouse 2010, pp. 146-47; Hebbert 2001, p. 309 (X:12); Waterhouse 1998; Bevan 1990, pp. 89-90
Photographs:
Waterhouse 2010, pp. 146-47 (F 3/4 + B [color]); [by TGM: back 7/8 from below, front 3/4 upper only (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Waterhouse 1998/2010: 2-piece table [sic, but unlikely] with central ornament and bad worm damage under bridge; 3-piece back, each section outlined with purfling and BN monogram in middle with triple flowers above and below, also relief carving in V at neck; both with double purfling (single around C-holes); diamond patterns inlaid on ribs. Fingerboard and tailpiece ebony, inlaid with satin- and rosewood (birds, foliage, flowers), “brutally cut down” [later enlarged with dark wood strips along edges]. Neck, hookbar, pegs not original. Female head has helmet and ram’s horns: perhaps 19-20C German? Hebbert 2001: head possibly by Hill in Arts and Crafts style. (Presumably in Bevan as 1 of 2 anon. division viols.) TGM: now has tailgut connecting shortened tailpiece and hookbar; thick wedge under fingerboard. No internal crossbars; top and bottom blocks are faceted. Table ornament Type IV (?), back center BN monogram, above Type IIIa, below Type III; also ornamented ribs.