DHV:
104
Tourin ID:
BERB 03
1754
Pardessus
Louis
Guersan
# of Strings:
5
Place Made:
F, Paris
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D, Berlin
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung
Head:
Female
Catalog Number:
4520
Label Text:
Ludovicus / GUERSAN, / propè / Comoediam / Gallican, / Lutetiae / Anno / 1754 [printed except 54]
Measurements:
Body Length:
32.6
String Length:
31.2
Rib Depth:
4.9
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
16.2
11.1
20.1
Previous Owner:
Fritz Wildhagen, Bielefeld, -1957
Information Source:
Otto & Adelmann 1975, p. 105
Literature:
Photographs:
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Otterstedt 2004, p. 120; Otto & Adelmann 1975, p. 105
[By TGM, 11/10: F+B, head F+S (with BERB 4) (color)]
Striped back and ribs. Head probably by La Fille. Lower neck, fingerboard, tailpiece, bridge, and block are replacements. (Previous neck was too short and narrow.) Pegbox has points interrupting the curve both front and back; 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side. Drawing by Olga Adelmann (1970) available from museum. Otterstedt 2004: dendrochronology gives date of 1739 for for youngest growth ring on table.