Viola da Gamba Society of America

DHV: 1450 Tourin ID: Size: Treble ? Place Made: Maker: D Nuremberg Leonhard Maussiell Date: 1711 Label Text: Leonhard Maussiell, Lautten- / und Geigenmacher in Nürnberg [1726?] [printed except date]; also brand mark L M Body Shape: Viol Current Location: CH No. of Strings: 6 Collection: Sound Holes: Flame Catalog Number: Head: Lion Private Owner: Yes Previous Owner: Konrad Ruhland, Niederaltaich (Germany) Measurements: Body Length: 42.1 String Length: Rib Depth: 5.8 Upper Width: 20.2 Middle Width: 13.2 Bottom Width: 24.8 Information Source: M. Ruhland to TGM, 10-12/23, 12/24, 1/25; Martius 1996, p. 122-24 Literature: Martius 1996, p. 122-24 Photographs: Martius 1996, pp. 123-24 (F+B, body open, inside of table); [unpublished, from M. Ruhland 12/24: front, lion head replacing earlier scroll (front) (color); labels; also 1/25: FB+S, C-bouts (color)] Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Striped back; new neck, pegbox, and fittings but original bass bar. Restored in 1994 by Hartmut Münzberg, including increase in rib depth. Repair label: Peter Schulz Geigenmacher in / Regensburg ausgebessert anno MDCCCXXX; also, handwritten on inside of table: “I. Hackl 1881 / reparirt”.

DHV: 445 Tourin ID: KOPEB 02 Size: Treble ? Place Made: Maker: Date: Label Text: Jacobus Stainer in Absom prope Oenipontum 1666 [printed] Body Shape: Viol Current Location: DK Copenhagen No. of Strings: 5 Collection: Danish Music Museum Sound Holes: Flame Catalog Number: 372.D69 Head: Lion Private Owner: Previous Owner: Hans Hahn, -1903 Measurements: Body Length: String Length: Rib Depth: Upper Width: Middle Width: Bottom Width: 21.5 Information Source: T. Bergstrøm to TGM, 2/04; Hammerich 1911, p. 86 Literature: Hammerich 1911, p. 86; Hammerich 1909, p. 71 Photographs: Hammerich 1911, p. 86 (front); Hammerich 1909, p. 71 (front) Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Not in Senn & Roy 1986. Repair label of Johann Roeser in Würzburg, 1872. Hammerich: “Quinton (Pardessus de viole)”; low rib height; 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side. Museum: Neck not original (viola conversion); but 1909 photo shows 5 pegs.

DHV: 770 Tourin ID: SALZ 1 Size: Treble ? Place Made: Maker: A Bruck Jakob Rauch Date: 1715 C Label Text: Jacob Rauch Hof-lauten / [und?] Geigenmacher in / I[nns]rugg Ao 17... [handwritten, nearly illegible] Body Shape: Viol Current Location: A Salzburg No. of Strings: -4 Collection: Salzburg Museum (formerly Carolino Augusteum) Sound Holes: Flame Catalog Number: 11/1 (formerly 75, before that 13) Head: Scroll Private Owner: Previous Owner: [at museum at least since 1865] Measurements: Body Length: 37.5 String Length: 32 Rib Depth: 3.4 Upper Width: 19.7 Middle Width: 12.4 Bottom Width: 22 Information Source: PT visit 9/78 Literature: Birsak 1996, pp. 160-61; Geiringer 1932, p. 19 Photographs: Birsak 1996, p. 178 (FB+S) Recordings: Auctions: Comments: 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.

DHV: 917 Tourin ID: YALE 08 Size: Bass Place Made: Maker: I Venice G. Battista Ciciliano Date: 1560 C ? Label Text: Batista fiol de Antonio Cicilian / in Venetia [printed] Body Shape: Viol Current Location: USA New Haven, CT No. of Strings: 6 Collection: Yale University Sound Holes: C Catalog Number: 4670.00 (formerly 127) Head: Scroll Private Owner: Previous Owner: Morris Steinert, c. 1880- Measurements: Body Length: 60.2 String Length: 63.2 Rib Depth: 11.9 Upper Width: 32.5 Middle Width: 23.3 Bottom Width: 35.8 Information Source: TGM visit 10/93 Literature: Monical 1989, pp. 12-13; Marcuse 1960 Photographs: On museum’s website (FB+S [color]); Moens 1995, p. 228 (F+S, label); Monical 1989, pp. 12-13 (FB+S, head side); Young 1980, p. 53 (F+S); Marcuse 1975, p. 500 (front); Marcuse 1960, pl. 14 (FB+S); Steinert 1893, p. 162 (front); [by TGM: front] Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Scroll has no ears; neck meets shoulders at a diagonal, ribs slope toward table. Moens 1995: cut down from older, larger instrument. 2-piece neck; pegbox probably originally for only 4 pegs. Label doesn’t match those in Brussels 1425-1426. Monical 1989: X-ray photo of top block shows original nails, but severed when neck angle changed; date c. 1570. Tourin: glued bass bar; bridge not original; neck modified. Restored by Wurlitzer c. 1956-58 (correspondence in museum’s file). Website: back and ribs of fruitwood; fingerboard probably added later, enlarged, and recut (doesn’t match tailpiece); pegs not original; date c. 1550. Steinert 1893: shown with 4 strings and narrowed neck.

DHV: 477 Tourin ID: LEIP 12 Size: Tenor Place Made: Maker: Date: 15.. Label Text: Body Shape: Current Location: No. of Strings: 6 Collection: [ex-Universität Leipzig] Sound Holes: Catalog Number: 248 Head: Private Owner: Previous Owner: Paul de Wit, Leipzig Measurements: Body Length: String Length: Rib Depth: Upper Width: Middle Width: Bottom Width: Information Source: De Wit 1903, p. 94 Literature: De Wit 1903, p. 94 Photographs: Recordings: Auctions: Comments: De Wit: “Viola di Gamba (Alt), von ganz eigenartiger Form ... dürfte dem 16. Jahrhundert angehören.” Lost since World War II.

DHV: 729 Tourin ID: PARIS 40 Size: Treble Place Made: Maker: F Caen Dieulafait Date: 1724 Label Text: Dieulafait / a Caen / 1724 [handwritten on inside of back] Body Shape: Viol Current Location: F Paris No. of Strings: 6 Collection: Musée de la musique Sound Holes: C Catalog Number: E.979.2.67 Head: Scroll Private Owner: Previous Owner: Geneviève Thibault, Comtesse de Chambure, -1979 Measurements: Body Length: 36.6 String Length: 38 Rib Depth: 7.9 Upper Width: 18.6 Middle Width: 14.3 Bottom Width: 22.1 Information Source: Museum’s website; Bran-Ricci 1980, p. 49; Museum to PT 9/79 Literature: Gétreau 1996, p. 728; Bran-Ricci 1980, p. 49 Photographs: On museum’s website (FB+S, head side; front, front 3/4, head side [color]); Khazine 2004, p. 7 (front 3/4) Recordings: Auctions: Comments: 1-piece back and ribs of walnut (also pegbox); table has painted purfling. Tailpiece and back crossbars not original. Scroll has flat sides.

DHV: 872 Tourin ID: UCLA 2 Size: Treble ? Place Made: Maker: A Vienna Johann Joseph Stadlmann Date: 1776 Label Text: Joannes Josephus Stadlmann, Lauten- / und Violin-Macher in Wienn 1776 Body Shape: Viol Current Location: No. of Strings: 6 Collection: Sound Holes: Flame Catalog Number: Head: Female Private Owner: Yes? Previous Owner: University of California [604007649-22 (formerly 3-20)]; Erich Lachmann Measurements: Body Length: 39.8 String Length: 36.8 Rib Depth: 3.7 Upper Width: 19.3 Middle Width: 14 Bottom Width: 23.9 Information Source: TGM visit 7/92; museum data sheet Literature: Christie’s 10/13/09, lot 188; Lachmann 1950, p. 51 Photographs: Christie’s 10/13/09, lot 188 (front [color]) Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Christie’s 2009/10/13, lot 188 Lachmann (and thus also Christie’s): alto viola da braccio; probably a cut-down viola d’amore (evidence of former presence of 6 sympathetic strings). I read label date as 1776; they say 1746 (but JJ Stadlmann’s father and teacher lived until 1744; JJ died in 1781). Tourin dimensions 67.9, 41.3, 19.2/-/24.1, 3.7, -.

DHV: 1732 Tourin ID: Size: Tenor Place Made: Maker: I Date: Label Text: Gio Paolo Maggini in Brescia [printed] Body Shape: Viol Current Location: D Ellerhoop No. of Strings: 6 Collection: Private Collection Sound Holes: F Catalog Number: Head: Head Private Owner: Yes Previous Owner: Hannelore Mueller [and heirs] -c. 2024 Measurements: Body Length: 55 String Length: 52 Rib Depth: 9 Upper Width: 24.9 Middle Width: 18.8 Bottom Width: 30 Information Source: Owner to TGM, 10/24; T. Mutheius to TGM, 9/22 Literature: Photographs: [Unpublished, from owner 10/24: FB+S body only, bottom rib (with cracks), treble F-hole, label (color); from T. Muthesius 10/22: F, F body only; body during restoration in 2024: top off, underside of table, bottom rib inside and outside, top block (color)] Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Pointed body corners, sloping shoulders; table with double purling and tall C-holes (upper eyes almost level with upper body corners), ribs of bird’s-eye maple; fingerboard with white edges, deeply sculpted tailpiece with tail gut. Back widths 24.4/18.1/30.5. Restored for current owner by Caroline Zillmann (Dresden). Similar in appearance to DHV 110 (Berlin 2476). Dendrochronology by Ekkard Seidl: youngest ring 1569 bass side, 1585 treble side.

DHV: 813 Tourin ID: STOCK 12 Size: Bass Place Made: Maker: Date: 1600 C Label Text: Body Shape: Viol Current Location: S Stockholm No. of Strings: -4 Collection: Swedish Museum of Performing Arts Sound Holes: Flame Catalog Number: F344 Head: Animal Private Owner: Previous Owner: Daniel Fryklund, Helsingsborg, -1966 Measurements: Body Length: 67.3 String Length: 68 Rib Depth: 11.3 Upper Width: 32.1 Middle Width: 24.7 Bottom Width: 38.4 Information Source: Museum website; museum to TGM, 4/04; PT visit 10/78 [not seen] Literature: Photographs: On museum’s website (front); [unpublished, from museum, 4/04: FB+S, head side] Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Converted to a cello, but pegbox still has 6 sets of holes; modernistic carving on unfluted back of pegbox; wide flame holes have lower eyes only. Website string length 67.0-68.0.

DHV: 1161 Tourin ID: Size: Pardessus Place Made: Maker: F Paris René Champion Date: 1748 Label Text: Renée Champion de S. Julien rue des vielles Odriettes au coin de l’Echelle du Temple a Paris 1748 Body Shape: Viol Current Location: NL Amsterdam No. of Strings: 5 Collection: Private Collection Sound Holes: C Catalog Number: Head: Male Private Owner: Yes Previous Owner: [widow of a dealer in antique paintings, a friend of Lindeman’s father, who had acquired it c. 1930] Measurements: Body Length: 32.5 String Length: Rib Depth: 5.8 Upper Width: 16.5 Middle Width: 11.7 Bottom Width: 20 Information Source: M. Herzog + F Lindeman to TGM, 11/96 Literature: Photographs: [Unpublished, from owner: FB+S, head FB+S (color)] Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Striped back and ribs. Male head with moustache and flying scarf or collar. La Fille type pegbox. 3 pegs treble, 2 bass side.