Viola da Gamba Society of America

1865

Bass

Auguste

Tolbecque

# of Strings:

6+12

Place Made:

F, Niort ?

Body Shape:

Festoon

Current Location:

B, Brussels

Sound Holes:

Flame

Collection:

Musée des instruments de musique

Head:

Head

Catalog Number:

0486

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40

Previous Owner:

Auguste Tolbecque, -1879

Information Source:

Mahillon 2/1893, 1:467-8

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Comments:

Mahillon 2/1893, 1:467-8

On museum’s website (front [color])

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G. da Salo model; +12 sympathetic strings (but only 6 pegs in pegbox, unlike Paris E.1669.1, also 6+12, dated 1899); table and back painted; “forme fleur de lys” (cf. upper bouts). Museum’s website: violoncelle d’amour expérimental; photo shows a central table ornament (partly gilded?) and dark scrolling floral motifs below bridge and at upper corners; fleur de lys cutout in inlaid tailpiece; tuning pins for sympathetic strings at bottom block.