DHV:
370
Tourin ID:
HARN 08
Size:
Bass
Label Text:
Place Made:
A, Vienna
Maker:
Jacob
Precheisen
Date:
1670
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
A, Vienna
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private collection
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
true
Previous Owner:
Stift Herzogenburg (Augustinian monastery in lower Austria) in 1849 (see Heider & Haeufler 1850, p. 173)
Measurements:
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Information Source:
Harnoncourt 1965 (Bach St. John), nos. 31-32; Harnoncourt 1974 (Purcell); Harnoncourt 1965a (Florid-Song)
Literature:
Drescher 1990, p. 486; Heider & Haeufler 1850, p. 173
Photographs:
Harnoncourt 1965 (Bach St. John), no. 12; Harnoncourt 1965a (Florid-Song), no. 8; Harnoncourt n.d. (Kaiserhof), no. 17 (all front 7/8)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Harnoncourt 1974 (Purcell); Harnoncourt 1965 (Bach St. John), nos. 31-32; Harnoncourt 1965a (Florid-Song)
Heider & Haeufler 1850: “Eine alte Gamba. Inwendig: “Jacob Precheisen, Hof Lauten und Geigenmacher in Wien 1670.” (At that time, Stift Herzogenburg also owned the Magnus Felden 1656 baryton, as well as a viola d’amore, 2 “mandolins” and 3 lutes.)