DHV:
1364
Tourin ID:
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Size:

Treble ?

Label Text:

Place Made:

A, Salzburg

Maker:

Johannes

Schorn

Date:

1711

Johannes Schorn / Hof Lauten u. / Geigenmacher Salisburgi / 1711

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

USA, Ashland, Oregon

Sound Holes:

Flame

Collection:

Southern Oregon University

No. of Strings:

6

Catalog Number:

70.178

Head:

Cupid

Previous Owner:

Jack Schuman, Phoenix, Oregon, -c. 2007; Franz Nowy, Vienna, -1970

Measurements:

Body Length:

37.4

String Length:

31.5

Rib Depth:

4.5

Upper Width:

17

Middle Width:

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Bottom Width:

22.2

Information Source:

J. Schuman to TGM, 5/02

Literature:

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Photographs:

[Unpublished, from J. Schuman: F+S, side 3/4, head 3/4, rosette]

Recordings:

Auctions:

Comments:

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Likely a converted viola d’amore: blindfolded Cupid head with traces of gold leaf; rosette. Announcement of Schuman’s donation of his collection to Southern Oregon U. (in Galpin Society Newsletter for Feb. 2008, p. 8) mentions this instrument, calling it a viola da braccio.