DHV:
50
Tourin ID:
BASEL 8

1700 C

Bass

Claude

Pierray

# of Strings:

6

Place Made:

F, Paris

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

CH, Basel

Sound Holes:

C

Collection:

Historisches Museum

Head:

Female

Catalog Number:

1916.307

Label Text:

Claude Pieray, / A Paris [printed]

Measurements:

String Length:

72.0?

Total Length:

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Body Length:

69.7

Upper Width:

32.7

Rib Depth:

14

Middle Width:

24.2

Bottom Width:

39.6

Previous Owner:

Gebrüder Hug & Co., Basel

Information Source:

PT visits 6/77 & 10/78

Literature:

Photographs:

Recordings:

Auctions:

Comments:

Klaus 1997, p. 50

Kirnbauer 2014, p. 35 (front 78 [color]); [by PT: front, head 3/4 (color)]

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Tourin: new neck, possibly also pegbox. Double purfling. Klaus: 2-piece table and back; repair label “Heinrich Müller / von S. blassien. 1814” [handwritten]; dimensions 68.7, 32.7/23.9/39.4, 13.3, 72.0.