DHV:
1411
Tourin ID:
1700 C
Bass
Jacob
Meinertzen
# of Strings:
6
Place Made:
D, Berlin
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Head:
Open scroll
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Label Text:
Measurements:
String Length:
65.1
Total Length:
Body Length:
62.9
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Previous Owner:
Information Source:
Sotheby’s 12/12/85, lot 107
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Comments:
Montagu 1986, p. 258; Sotheby’s 12/12/85, lot 107
Sotheby’s 12/12/85, lot 107 (F+B [color])
Sotheby’s 1985/12/12, lot 107
Slightly arched back of cyprus; ribs also cyprus; back and table edged with ivory. Original bass bar. Neck, pegbox and open scroll, fingerboard and tailpiece by Günther Hellwig; attribution to Meinertzen also by him. Montagu 1986: “rather rough head and neck.”