DHV:
277
Tourin ID:
GAL 11

16..

Bass

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# of Strings:

7

Place Made:

F,

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

GB, Oxford

Sound Holes:

C

Collection:

Private collection

Head:

Eagle

Catalog Number:

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Label Text:

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Measurements:

String Length:

68.5

Total Length:

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Body Length:

66.4

Upper Width:

31.9

Rib Depth:

12

Middle Width:

24.4

Bottom Width:

37.2

Previous Owner:

Thurston Dart, Cambridge, at least 1959-death c. 1971; Elizabeth Goble in 1951.

Information Source:

TGM visit 10/01; IAML-Galpin 1959, p. 273

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Comments:

IAML-Galpin 1959, p. 273

[By TGM, 10/11: FB+S, head F+S, detail of inscription on back (color)]; [unpublished, in Heale Archive, on display in 1951: front 3/4]

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On back, in ink, just below fold: “Monsieur Richard / Sieur de Lalande / Maistre de [la?] / Chapelle du / Roy / a Versailles, 1695” (very hard to read). [Per GAL 11, inscription supposedly reads “Monsieur Rameau”; cf. Gétreau 1996, p. 241, for a French bass “portant la mention Guillaume maître de la chapelle du roy, 1692”.] Table has one thick black line of purfling; back has none. Back and ribs are poplar (per M. Fleming); table perhaps also. Fingerboard and tailpiece reddish-blond with black edge stripes about 1 cm.