DHV:
1603
Tourin ID:
1722
Bass
François
Gavinies
# of Strings:
7
Place Made:
F, Paris
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D, Bombach (near Freiburg)
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Private collection
Head:
Head
Catalog Number:
Label Text:
Gaviniès, rue / S. Thomas du / Louvre, a Paris 1722 [printed except 22]
Measurements:
Body Length:
70.5
String Length:
69
Rib Depth:
11
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
30
21
38
Previous Owner:
[a woman in southern Germany, c. 1939-1998; purchased from her estate via her niece, Frau Vogelbach]
Information Source:
Owner’s website and to TGM 1-3/13
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Auctions:
Comments:
On owner’s website
Owner’s website (head 7/8 from below, rosette, bridge [color]); [unpublished, from owner: front (color)]
Restored by Mathias Behrle, Freiburg: new neck, fingerboard and tailpiece, bridge, also half-edging. (When found, was set up with only 6 (metal) strings and a very short neck, but pegbox revealed originally for 7, and so documented when previous owner purchased in 1939.) Soundholes originally Cs, converted to Fs, then back to Cs; outline perhaps made smaller as well. Label seems original, and head not atypical for Gavinies, according to owner. (However, Gaviniès supposedly didn’t move from Bordeaux to Paris until 1734.)