DHV:
1133
Tourin ID:
1720 C
Tenor
# of Strings:
6
Place Made:
D, Leipzig ?
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
J, Hamamatsu City
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments
Head:
Scroll
Catalog Number:
C-0183
Label Text:
[None]
Measurements:
String Length:
52.2
Total Length:
Body Length:
50.8
Upper Width:
22.6
Rib Depth:
9.8
Middle Width:
15.9
Bottom Width:
30.2
Previous Owner:
Tony Bingham, London
Information Source:
Museum to TGM, 6/09; T. Bingham to TGM, 10/01 and 7/02; Sotheby’s 10/9/81, lot 236
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Comments:
Sotheby’s 10/9/81, lot 236
Uemura 2011 (front [color]); Hamamatsu 1995, p. 16 (front); Sotheby’s 10/9/81, lot 236 (F+B); [unpublished, from museum 8/09: FB+S (color)]
Uemura 2011
Sotheby’s 1981/10/09, lot 236
Lower bout unusually wide and curved; C-holes relatively small and far from edges; no purfling on back. Hamamatsu 1995: Germany, c. 1720; total length 91.0. Sotheby’s: length of body [sic, probably taken on back] 51.1 cm; total length 91.4; School of Hoffmann, first half of the 18th century.