Viola da Gamba Society of America

16..

Treble

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# of Strings:

6

Place Made:

GB,

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

NL,

Sound Holes:

C

Collection:

Private collection

Head:

Animal

Catalog Number:

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Label Text:

[None]

Measurements:

String Length:

35.5

Total Length:

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Body Length:

37.5

Upper Width:

17

Rib Depth:

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Middle Width:

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Bottom Width:

21.5

Previous Owner:

Jeanne Dolmetsch; Ruth Daniells

Information Source:

Dolmetsch 1978, p. 72; PT visit 6/77

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Comments:

Dolmetsch 1978, p. 72

Dolmetsch 1978, p. 73 (front 3/4)

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Head by A. Dolmetsch; he “considered this to be a late 17th-century instrument by an English maker. (...) The body appears to have been thinned down after that time, presumably for use as a viola.” (But rib depth, given as 11.5, must be an error, probably intended as width of middle bout.] Single purfling.