DHV:
406
Tourin ID:
KENS 14
16..
Bass
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Place Made:
GB,
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Collection:
[KENSINGTON 14 (Lord Fitzgerald)]
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[None]
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Previous Owner:
Lord G. Fitzgerald, London (in 1872)
Information Source:
Engel 1872, p. 24
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Comments:
Engel 1872, p. 24 (no. 175)
Fingerboard narrowed for 4 strings instead of 6. “A specimen of the smallest kind of bass-viol, now very scarce. Probably English, 17th century.”