DHV:
866
Tourin ID:
TOKYO 6

Size:

Treble ?

Label Text:

Place Made:

D, Munich

Maker:

Rudolph

Höss

Date:

16..

Ruedolph Höß Churst [recte: Churfl.] / Hof Lautenmacher in / München 16 [printed]

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

J, Tokyo

Sound Holes:

Flame

Collection:

Ueno Gakuen College

No. of Strings:

5

Catalog Number:

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Head:

Devil

Previous Owner:

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Measurements:

Body Length:

37.6

String Length:

34.9

Rib Depth:

5.5

Upper Width:

19.4

Middle Width:

12.8

Bottom Width:

23.7

Information Source:

JVdGSA 23 (1986): 28

Literature:

JVdGSA 23 (1986): 28

Photographs:

JVdGSA 23 (1986): 36-7 (FB+S)

Recordings:

Auctions:

Comments:

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Volin-style neck, backless pegbox, and finial are old but not original to this instrument. 2-piece back and ribs of bird’s-eye maple. “Viola da gamba (treble),” but “presumably remodeled from a viola d’amore,” though no trace of sympathetic strings. Smallest of 10 Höss “trebles”. 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side.