DHV:
181
Tourin ID:
BRUS 50
Size:
Pardessus
Label Text:
Place Made:
F, Paris
Maker:
Nicolas
Bertrand
Date:
1701
Nicolas Bertrand à Paris, 1701
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
B, Brussels
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Musée des instruments de musique
No. of Strings:
6
Catalog Number:
0222
Head:
Female
Previous Owner:
François-Joseph Fétis, Brussels
Measurements:
Body Length:
String Length:
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
19
Information Source:
PT visits 6/77 & 9/78 (?)
Literature:
Photographs:
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Mahillon 2/1893, 1:320
On museum’s website (front [color]); Moens 2000, p. 19 (F [color]); Otterstedt 1994, p. 205 (head); [unpublished, in Heale Archive, from museum: FB+S]
Mahillon (and museum’s website): dessus; dimensions: L-total 62, W-bottom 19. Photos show single purfling on front, none on back; elaborate carving on back of pegbox.