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DHV:
999
Tourin ID:

Size:

Treble

Place Made:

Maker:

Date:

Label Text:

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

USA

Haverford, PA

No. of Strings:

6

Collection:

Private Collection

Sound Holes:

C

Catalog Number:

Head:

Open scroll

Private Owner:

Yes

Previous Owner:

Hannah Hammitt, Philadelphia, -1992; (likely ex-Dolmetsch)

Measurements:

Body Length:

40.6

String Length:

40

Rib Depth:

4.7

Upper Width:

19.8

Middle Width:

14

Bottom Width:

22.9

Information

Source:

TGM visit 2/12/95

Literature:

Photographs:

[Unpublished, by TGM: FB+S]

Recordings:

Auctions:

Comments:

Ribs currently very shallow; perhaps cut down (or replaced) to permit use as a viola. Mostly illegible label at back fold; writing apparently modern and in English. Double purfling on table and back; fingerboard and tailpiece solid rosewood.

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