DHV:
1606
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Label Text:
Place Made:
GB,
Maker:
Date:
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F, Paris
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Private collection
No. of Strings:
6
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Previous Owner:
Jean Lamy
Measurements:
Body Length:
71.2
String Length:
Rib Depth:
13
Upper Width:
34
Middle Width:
25.3
Bottom Width:
40.6
Information Source:
TGM visit (Cocquoz shop, via C. Coin) 8/11
Literature:
Photographs:
[By TGM: F, back body only, head FB+S, details of back upper corners [color])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
7-piece table, 2-piece back, both with single purfling (perhaps not original); no decoration except double V at top of back. New wood above upper corners of back in such a way as to suggest C-bouts were once about 3 cm larger vertically; C. Coin thinks body has been cut down, but J. Pringle thinks outline (and wood) looks early 17C English as is (based on photos). Head not original; based on photo, J. Pringle says it’s from a Bertrand viol. Pegbox back mostly plain; plugged hole for 7th peg nearest to head; neck not original, somewhat cello-style, and string spacing is narrow (3.3 cm at nut); not set up, so string length unavailable. 2x6 tuning pins inserted in a V pattern into bottom rib/block for sympathetic strings, with hitchpins at top of table, under fingerboard.