DHV:
780
Tourin ID:
SAVALL 5
Size:
Bass
Label Text:
Place Made:
GB, London
Maker:
Barak
Norman
Date:
1697
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
E, Barcelona
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Savall, Jordi
No. of Strings:
7
Catalog Number:
Head:
Head
Previous Owner:
Dolmetsch family
Measurements:
Body Length:
72.3
String Length:
69
Rib Depth:
12.4
Upper Width:
32.5
Middle Width:
24.4
Bottom Width:
39.5
Information Source:
P. Hütmannsberger, 6/94
Literature:
Hebbert 2001, p. 295 (1697:3)
Photographs:
Savall 2000 (front [color]); Savall 1998 (front 7/8 [color]); Savall 1992 (front [color]); [unpublished, from P. Hütmannsberger: FB+S, soundholes, table ornament (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Savall 2000 (Bach II); Savall 1998a (La Folia); Savall 1998 (Les Voix Humaines); Savall 1992 (Sainte Colombe); Savall 1992a (Marais III); Savall 1991 (Jenkins); Savall 1987 (Marais V); Savall 1983 (Hume); Savall 1980 (Gibbons); Savall 1980a (Coprario); Savall 1979 (Marais I); Savall 1978 (Forqueray); Savall 1978a (Bach I); Savall 1978c (Scheidt); Savall 1976b (Sainte Colombe); Savall 1976a (Couperin), played by Ariane Maurette
Table ornament Type IV, back center Type III, upper and lower Type II. Double purfling front and back. Rib depth 12.9 at fold, 13.2 at center bout, only 12.4 at bottom block. Hebbert 2001: “reverted to viol [i.e. from cello] by Dolmetsch”; other sources say 7th string added more recently for Savall.