DHV:
902
Tourin ID:
VIENNA 11
Size:
Bass
Label Text:
Place Made:
I,
Maker:
Date:
16..
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
A, Vienna
Sound Holes:
F
Collection:
Kunsthistorisches Museum
No. of Strings:
5
Catalog Number:
SAM 682
Head:
Scroll
Previous Owner:
Erich Fiala, Vienna (before 1939 - after 1973)
Measurements:
Body Length:
72.9
String Length:
Rib Depth:
18
Upper Width:
35
Middle Width:
24.9
Bottom Width:
39
Information Source:
Seipel 1999, p. 143; Museum to TGM, 8/96
Literature:
Photographs:
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Watchorn 2007, p. 118; Seipel 1999, p. 143; Fiala 1973, pp. 34-35
Watchorn 2007, p. 58 (front); Seipel 1999, p. 145 (front 3/4 [color])
Hermann 1955, Hermann 1957
Inlaid fingerboard and tailpiece. No nicks in F-holes. Length of back 76.7 cm (longer than table). Handwritten repair label: “Zugeschrieben Giovanni Grancino um 1680. Repariert von Hans Wittmann Wien 1939.” 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side. First half of 17th C. Fiala 1973: by Johannes Maria, c. 1530 (based on fragment of label “Johannes Mar...” found during 1939 restoration; neck is new (original in collection of Fiala’s great-uncle, Karl Schreinzer, now at Nuremberg GMN); fingerboard from a contrabass by Anton Posch, with new tailpiece made to match; blocks. linings, and bassbar also new; dimensions 76.6 (”mit Blatt,” i.e. on back), 34.5/-/39.0, 19.0, 76.0. (Per K. Martius 2/15, neck and label are not in fact at GNM.)