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Viola da Gamba Society of America

Online Database of Historical Viols
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DVH #
Size
Maker's
Name
Date
Place
Made
Current
Location
Collection
No. of Strings
Body Length
String Length
267
Pardessus
François
Gavinies
1728
F
Bordeaux
USA
Vermillion, SD
National Music Museum
6
34.7
32.8
268
Bass
Claude
Boivin
1743
F
Paris
USA
Seattle, WA
Private Collection
6
69
269
Treble
16..
GB
GB
Teddington
Private Collection
6
37
35.6
270
Treble
Henry
Jaye
16..
GB
London (Southwark)
[Galpin 1951, no. 502 (Gerald Hayes)]
6
271
Treble
Henry
Jaye
1630
GB
London (Southwark)
GB
London
Private Collection
6
32.7
35.3
272
Treble
Barak
Norman
1700 C
GB
London
I
Florence
Private Collection
6
39.4
36
273
Treble
Henry
Jaye
1632
GB
London (Southwark)
[Galpin 1951, no. 506 (L.H. Lock)]
6
274
Treble
16.. ?
[Galpin 1951, no. 507 (Marco Pallis)]
6
275
Bass
John
Rose
1609
GB
London
[Galpin 1951, no. 508 (Noel Dilks)]
-4
276
Bass
Thomas
Cole
1670
GB
London
F
Paris
Private Collection
6
66
277
Bass
16..
F
GB
Oxford
Private Collection
7
66.4
68.5
278
Bass
Barak
Norman
1693
GB
London
GB
London
Royal College of Music
6
66
69.8
279
Tenor ?
Johann
Hasert
1735
D
Eisenach
GB
Kilmarnock
Dean Castle
7
44.2
43.5
280
Bass
Barak
Norman
GB
London
[Galpin 1968, no. 590 (Dolmetsch Coll.)]
65
67.5
281
Pardessus
Antoine
Saint-Paul
1774
F
Paris
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
5
32.1
31.2
282
Pardessus
Andrea
Castagneri
1745
F
Paris
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
32.4
32
283
Pardessus
Jean
Ouvrard
1735
F
Paris
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
32.9
32.1
284
Treble ?
CZ
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
36.1
33.8
285
Treble ?
Georg
Aman
1700 C
D
Augsburg
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
33.8
36.2
286
Treble ?
Andreas
Ostler
173
CZ
Breslau
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
38.3
287
Treble ?
Mathias
Klotz
1713
D
D, Mittenwald
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
39.2
36.6
288
Treble
Barak
Norman
1703 ?
GB
London
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
38.8
35.9
289
Treble ?
Andreas
Jais
1743
D
Tölz
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
5
290
Treble ?
Nikolaus
Dopfer
1748
D
Mainz
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
43.5
39
291
Tenor
Vincenzo
Postiglione
1891
I
Naples
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
50.8
49.3
292
Tenor
(Martin) Mathias II
Fichtl
1740
A
Vienna
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
44.3
47.5
293
Tenor
Caspar
Hopf
1681
D
Klingenthal
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
53
53
294
Bass
Michel
Collichon
1693
F
Paris
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
7
69.9
72
295
Bass
Jeremias [II]
Würffel
1670 ?
D
Greifswald
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
66.5
64
296
Bass
Barak
Norman
1696
GB
London
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
72.1
68.6
297
Bass
Nicolas
Bertrand
1702
F
Paris
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
7
78
75
298
Bass
Joachim
Tielke
1704 C
D
Hamburg
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
57.5
299
Bass
Stephanus
De Fantis
1551
I
Cremona
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
63
300
Violone
Ernst
Busch
16..
D
Nuremberg
CH
Geneva
Musée d’art et d’histoire
6
88.6
302
Quinton
Jean
Colin
17..
F
Mirecourt
GHENT 01
303
Quinton ?
17..
GHENT 08
5
304
Quinton ?
17..
GHENT 09
5
305
Quinton ?
17..
GHENT 10
5
306
Quinton ?
17..
GHENT 11
5
307
Treble ?
GHENT 12
6
308
Bass ?
GHENT 15
6
56
309
Bass
F
GHENT 17
5
310
Bass
GHENT 18
6
311
Bass ?
GHENT 21
5
312
Bass
Nicolas
Du Riez
1663
F
Abbeville
GHENT 23
-4
68
313
Violone ?
1600 C
I
-4
86
314
Treble
16.8
B
Brussels
GHENT B5
-4
315
Tenor
GHENT B6
6
316
Bass
Edward
Lewis
1690 C
GB
London
GB
Glasgow
Kelvingrove Museum
6
70
66.3
317
Bass
Jacob
Stainer
1660 C
A
Absam
USA
Arlington, VA
Private Collection
6
69.3
68
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