DHV:
1239
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Label Text:
Place Made:
F,
Maker:
Date:
16..
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F, Lille
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Musée Régional de l’Hospice Comtesse, Collection J. & P. Hel
No. of Strings:
7
Catalog Number:
C.233 / 2002.0.66
Head:
Previous Owner:
Heirs of Pierre Hel, Lille, -1957
Measurements:
Body Length:
67.3
String Length:
58.1 ?
Rib Depth:
13.2
Upper Width:
32.8
Middle Width:
24.5
Bottom Width:
40
Information Source:
Hel 1989, p. 89 (no. 65)
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Comments:
Hel 1989, p. 89 (no. 65)
Hel 1989, p. 89 (no. 65) (front, body only)
Striped back (7 pieces, walnut and yew), 4-piece table with single purfling, walnut ribs. Neck heel and lower part original; rest of neck narrowed, by later 18th-C. hand, who also made upper part of pegbox (top now missing). Pegs don’t all match; 6 reinforcing crossbars on inside of back. Materials, construction techniques, and morphology all characteristic of late 17th-C. French work.