DHV:
296
Tourin ID:
GENEV 16

Size:

Bass

Label Text:

Place Made:

GB, London

Maker:

Barak

Norman

Date:

1696

BN monogram in center of back

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

CH, Geneva

Sound Holes:

C

Collection:

Musée d’art et d’histoire

No. of Strings:

6

Catalog Number:

IM 20

Head:

Male

Previous Owner:

Fritz Ernst, Geneva, -1969

Measurements:

Body Length:

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String Length:

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Rib Depth:

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Upper Width:

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Middle Width:

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Bottom Width:

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Information Source:

PT visit 10/78

Literature:

Hebbert 2001, p. 293 (1696:3)

Photographs:

On museum’s website (front [color]); König, pp. 89-92 (front, head FB+S); from undated museum postcard (front [color]); [unpublished, from MB Winn 3/13: front full length, C-bouts with table ornament (color)]; [by PT: front (color)]

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Comments:

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Table with double purfling (single around C-holes); geometrical decoration on ribs. Neck possibly original, “but wedged back and modified several times.” Table ornament Type V; back center BN monogram.