DHV:
1648
Tourin ID:
1755
Pardessus
Pierre
Le Pilleur
# of Strings:
5
Place Made:
F, Paris
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CDN, (Montreal)
Sound Holes:
F
Collection:
Private collection
Head:
Female
Catalog Number:
Label Text:
Le Pilleur privilegiez / du Roy Abaye de St Germain / 1755 [handwritten]
Measurements:
String Length:
32.5
Total Length:
Body Length:
33.3
Upper Width:
16.2
Rib Depth:
4.8
Middle Width:
11.6
Bottom Width:
18.9
Previous Owner:
Gerald Trimble, Knsas City, MO, 2013-16; André Bissonet, Paris
Information Source:
J. Pringle to TGM, 9/13
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Comments:
[Unpublished, by/from J. Pringle: FB+S, body F+B, head FB+S, soundholes, etc. (color)]
Arched back with slight fold; high arching on table; both with single purfling plus black edging; striped ribs (2 maple, 3 fruitwood) with wildly wavy joint lines. La Fille head and carved pegbox (with “points” front and back); 3 pegs treble, 2 bass side. All original except fingerboard, tailpiece, nut, button, and 1 peg. Per Pringle, well made except design and workmanship of soundholes, which are awkwardly widened in middle and have small circles near inside edges, 2/3 down (at level of bridge foot marks).