DHV:
786
Tourin ID:
SHRIN 2
1728
Bass
Giovanni Floriano
Guidanti
# of Strings:
6
Place Made:
I, Bologna
Body Shape:
Cello
Current Location:
USA, Vermillion, SD
Sound Holes:
F
Collection:
National Music Museum
Head:
Scroll
Catalog Number:
3352
Label Text:
Joannes Florenus Guidantus / Fecit Bononiae Anno 1728 [printed, except 28]
Measurements:
Body Length:
66.9
String Length:
70.2
Rib Depth:
12.2
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
30
22
38.6
Previous Owner:
Laurence Witten, Southport, CT, -1984; Emil Herrmann, New York, 1932-62; Alexander Mackay-Smith, 1931; W.E. Hill & Sons, London, -1931; E.J. Payne, England (d. 1904); Silvestre family, Lyons; Bedetti, Bologna
Information Source:
TGM visit 6/95
Literature:
Photographs:
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Herzog 2003, IT-20; Catch 1997, pp. 132-33; Banks 1984, p. 24; Witten 1975, p. 7; Payne 1889
Banks 1984, pp. 25-27 (FB+S, front 3/4); color postcard available from museum (front 3/4)
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Excellent condition. Overhanging edges, cello corners, sloping shoulders, flat back. Top string peg closest to nut. Evidence of 12 sympathetic strings; but are this neck and pegbox original to the body? No other viols known by this maker. Banks dimensions: 69.7, 28.2/-/32.8, 13.2, -. Tourin dimensions 123, 66, 30/22/38.5, 13, 69.5