DHV:
38
Tourin ID:
BARCEL 3
Size:
Treble ?
Label Text:
Place Made:
D, Würzburg
Maker:
Zacharias
Fischer
Date:
1763
Zacharias Fischer Hochfürstl. Lauten und Geigenmacher in Wirzburg 1763 [printed except 63, which are unclear]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
E, Barcelona
Sound Holes:
Flame
Collection:
Conservatory of Music
No. of Strings:
6
Catalog Number:
MDMB 696 (formerly 280)
Head:
Scroll
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
39.2
String Length:
37
Rib Depth:
4.8
Upper Width:
19.4
Middle Width:
13.1
Bottom Width:
24.3
Information Source:
Escalas 1992, p. 154; PT visit 10/78
Literature:
Escalas 1992, p. 154
Photographs:
On museum’s website, via MIMO (front [color])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Museum classifies as viola d’amore, noting transformation into a treble viol (perhaps in 1893); clear traces of 7 sympathetic strings. Flat back and unpointed corners but square shoulders. Repair labels: “Compuesto por Diego Sanchez Madrid 1893”; “Reparado en 1949 I. Fleta Barcelona” (bridge by him). Fingerboard original, tailpiece not. Tourin: arm viol. Danks 1976, p. 90, quoting a museum curator: “The instrument originally had 7 playing and 7 sympathetic strings, but has been converted at some time to an instrument of 6 playing strings without sympathetic strings.”