DHV:
1052
Tourin ID:
16..
Bass
# of Strings:
6
Place Made:
D,
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
D, Halle
Sound Holes:
Flame
Collection:
Händel-Haus
Head:
Animal
Catalog Number:
223
Label Text:
Gasparo Duiffprucgar / Lyone Anno 1545 [printed; date not clearly legible]
Measurements:
String Length:
70
Total Length:
Body Length:
74
Upper Width:
37
Rib Depth:
12.1
Middle Width:
24.2
Bottom Width:
44.7
Previous Owner:
Information Source:
Heyde 1983, pp. 86-7; Saase 1972, pp. 86-7
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Auctions:
Comments:
Heyde 1983, p. 86; Saase 1972, p. 87
Heyde 1983, p. 87 (front); Saase 1972, p. 86 (FB+S)
Heyde 1983: Label is false: originally a South-German Bassgeige; striped back & ribs are oldest parts, perhaps even late 16th-C. Probably converted to cello in 18th C., to gamba in early 20th C. B&W table rim. Unusually shaped soundholes. Saase 1972: 1-piece table, back of 37 narrow strips of maple, ebony, and palisander; both with ebony-and-ivory edging and overhanging edges; ribs similar to back. Probably converted to a cello c. 1700, then back to a viol in 19th C., perhaps by J.B. Vuillaume.