DHV:
300
Tourin ID:
GENEV 20
Size:
Violone
Label Text:
Place Made:
D, Nuremberg
Maker:
Ernst
Busch
Date:
16..
Ernst Busch, Nürnberg, 1615 [handwritten; probably not original]
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
CH, Geneva
Sound Holes:
F
Collection:
Musée d’art et d’histoire
No. of Strings:
6
Catalog Number:
IM 22
Head:
Scroll
Previous Owner:
Fritz Ernst, Geneva, -1969; acquired 1930 in Munich
Measurements:
Body Length:
89
String Length:
87.5
Rib Depth:
19.5
Upper Width:
44
Middle Width:
29
Bottom Width:
50
Information Source:
Martius & Schulze 1991, pp. 174, 181 (their info from museum + postcard)
Literature:
Photographs:
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Martius & Schulze 1991, pp. 174, 181
König 1985, p. 89 (front); [unpublished, from MB Winn 3/13: front (color)]
Not in museum at time of Tourin’s visit, 10/78. Martius & Schulze 1991: double purfling on table, overhanging edges front and back, neck not original; information from the museum and a postcard photo.