DHV:
770
Tourin ID:
SALZ 1
1715 C
Treble ?
Jakob
Rauch
# of Strings:
(4)
Place Made:
A, Bruck
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
A, Salzburg
Sound Holes:
Flame
Collection:
Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum
Head:
Scroll
Catalog Number:
11/1 (formerly 75, before that 13)
Label Text:
Jacob Rauch Hof-lauten / [und?] Geigenmacher in / I[nns]rugg Ao 17... [handwritten, nearly illegible]
Measurements:
String Length:
32
Total Length:
Body Length:
37.5
Upper Width:
19.7
Rib Depth:
3.4
Middle Width:
12.4
Bottom Width:
22
Previous Owner:
[at museum at least since 1865]
Information Source:
PT visit 9/78
Literature:
Photographs:
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Birsak 1996, pp. 160-61; Geiringer 1932, p. 19
Birsak 1996, p. 178 (FB+S)
Geiringer: crudely transformed into a violin, including straightening out of fold in back and cutting down of ribs; neck, scroll, fingerboard, tailpiece, and bridge not original. Label nearly illegible. Dimensions 39, 18/-/21, 4, -. Tourin: Probably cut down from a tenor; very big flame holes; violin-type neck and scroll. Birsak: viola d’amore or treble viol (p. 56: “vielleicht zuvor eine Diskantgambe”), converted to a violin, with rounded shoulders; table purfling lost in rebuild. 1-piece back; small bass bar and corner blocks; no visible signs of former sympathetic strings. Back length 39, widths 18/12/21.6.