Viola da Gamba Society of America

1750

Bass

Andreas

Kempter

# of Strings:

6

Place Made:

D, Dillingen

Body Shape:

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Current Location:

D, Berlin

Sound Holes:

C

Collection:

Private collection

Head:

Lion

Catalog Number:

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Label Text:

Andreas Kempter / Lauthen und Geigenmacher in Dillingen, 1750

Measurements:

String Length:

67

Total Length:

118

Body Length:

66

Upper Width:

30.5

Rib Depth:

11

Middle Width:

21.7

Bottom Width:

39

Previous Owner:

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Information Source:

Donderer to Tourin 12/77

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“Excerpts of the expertise: Wirbelkasten Birnbaume ... rotbrauner Originallack, Einfluß Mathias Albanus. Linke, obere Zarge erneuert.” Drescher 1990, p. 309, lists for this maker a “Gambe 1760” in “Berlin, Privatbesitz”: probably the same instrument, with one digit wrong in the date.