DHV:
953
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Thomas
Collingwood
Date:
1694
Label Text:
“Thomas Collingwood, London [...?] Bridge, fecit 1694”; [overlaid with another reading] “...Street in the Strand, 16..” [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB
Manchester
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Royal Northern College of Music
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
V2
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Josiah T. Chapman, Manchester, -1907; James G. Chapman, Manchester, -1942
Measurements:
Body Length:
68
String Length:
Rib Depth:
12.3
Upper Width:
31.7
Middle Width:
22
Bottom Width:
39
Information
Source:
Waterhouse 2010, p. 148; Waterhouse 1998; Bevan 1990, pp. 89-90
Literature:
MacCracken 2016, pp. 193-94; Waterhouse 2010, p. 148; Waterhouse 1998; Bevan 1990, pp. 89-90
Photographs:
minim.ac.uk (3/4 [color]); Waterhouse 2010, p. 148 (front 3/4 [color]); [by TGM: back 7/8 from below, neck and head 3/4 (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Dimensions in Waterhouse 1998/2010 are of back: flat, 2-piece, with geometric inlaid designs [TGM: diamond patterns at bottom, in middle, and below fold, matching STOCK 24], crackeled varnish and a bad crack; table 2-piece, with joint under treble bridge foot [? more likely 3-piece], fleur de lis decoration; both with double purfling. Fingerboard and tailpiece boxwood and ebony, inlaid with birds and foliage. Fingerboard cut down for cello, then re-enlarged; neck and pegs not original, bridge by Hills. (Not currently strung up.) NB rib height probably includes thickness of table and back.