DHV:
1267
Tourin ID:
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1722
Bass
Barak
Norman
# of Strings:
6
Place Made:
GB, London
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA, Asheville, NC
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Private collection
Head:
Female
Catalog Number:
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Label Text:
Barak Norman / at the Bass Viol in / St Pauls Church-yd / London Fecit / 1722 [printed except 1722]
Measurements:
String Length:
68.7
Total Length:
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Body Length:
69
Upper Width:
29.4
Rib Depth:
11.7
Middle Width:
21.9
Bottom Width:
36.8
Previous Owner:
William L. Monical, Staten Island, NY, -2005
Information Source:
TGM exam 2/01
Literature:
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Auctions:
Comments:
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[by TGM: FB+S, head FB+S, table ornament (color)] [unpublished, from S. Peck 7/12: label (color)]
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Table 1-piece (?) with 4 wings; back 1-piece (quite sunken just below fold); both with double purfling. Pegbox decorated only on front edges; tailgut; back braces very thin (one each in upper and lower bouts), corner blocks but perimeter linings cloth only. (Not in Hebbert 2001.) Table ornament Type VIII, back center Type III, upper and lower Type IIa.