DHV:
379
Tourin ID:
HART 4
Size:
Treble
Label Text:
Place Made:
GB, London
Maker:
Henry
Jaye
Date:
1615 C
1704 Carlo Bergonzi / fecit Cremonae [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CDN, Toronto, Ontario
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Hart House, University of Toronto
No. of Strings:
6
Catalog Number:
Head:
Male
Previous Owner:
Arts & Letters Club and Hart House, Toronto, 1932-35; Massey Foundation et al., Toronto, 1919-32; W. Howard Head, Vancouver, 1910-1919; idem, London
Measurements:
Body Length:
33
String Length:
31.5? 34.5
Rib Depth:
8
Upper Width:
15.7
Middle Width:
11
Bottom Width:
18.6
Information Source:
Morton 2010, pp. 48-50; W. Grunsky to G. Lyman 1/64; PT visit (unknown date)
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Comments:
Eatock 2010; Morton 2010, pp. 48-50
Eatock 2010, p. 62 (head 3/4); Morton 2010, pp. 48-49 (FB+SS, head 3/4); Voix Humaines 2009 (head front, 3/4); [by TGM: in display case 1/07, front 3/4 (color)]; [unpublished, sent to PT: front 3/4]; [unpublished, from J. Pringle: front, back 3/4, side 3/4, body only (color)]
Voix Humaines 2009 (Purcell)
5-piece table with low arch, 1-piece back, both with double purfling; ribs also have frame of continuous purfling. 2 grafts at pegbox, one running all the way to head (evidence of widening or narrowing?). Boldly carved grandfather’s head with beard, probably late 18th-C. German. Display sign suggests date c. 1680. Morton 2010 (from 1982 appraisal by M. Remenyi): back and ribs of sycamore, head newer than rest; (from pre-1982 description by B. Pronger): neck thought to be original, head possibly by George St. George, instrument has been over-varnished, especially on table; dimensions (from 1974 appraisal by W. Monical): 33.0, 15.8/11.05/18.7, 8.0, 33.3. Attribution to Jaye by B. Hebbert, 2009, based in part on similarity of varnish to the 1619 Jaye bass and purfling to the 1610 Jaye bass.