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:
Head:
Devil
Previous Owner:
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
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Auctions:
Comments:
JVdGSA 23 (1986): 28
JVdGSA 23 (1986): 36-7 (FB+S)
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.