Viola da Gamba Society of America

DHV: 1297 Tourin ID: Size: Bass Place Made: Maker: GB London Thomas Cole Date: 1674 Label Text: Thomas Cole, near Fetter-lane / in Holborn, London, 1674 [printed, including final digits] Body Shape: Viol Current Location: GB London No. of Strings: 6 Collection: Private Collection Sound Holes: C Catalog Number: Head: Lion Private Owner: Yes Previous Owner: Edith Lake, London, -c. 1970 Measurements: Body Length: 64.7 String Length: 65.4 Rib Depth: 11 Upper Width: 29.3 Middle Width: 21.5 Bottom Width: 37.5 Information Source: TGM visit 10/01 Literature: MacCracken 2016, p. 189 Photographs: [By TGM: FB+S, head front, back 3/4 (color)] Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Table seems to be 2-piece (with wing for lower bass bout, at least), with double purfling. Back probably doesn’t belong to rest: has scratched-and-inked purfling and arabesque designs, and no soundpost plate (label is glued diagonally directly onto back). Shoulders have been reshaped on both table and back, by adding as much as 2 cm of width on each side. Lion head also unlikely to be original: very ornate, high-profile carving, with 2 fangs and luxuriant mane. Bridge placed above middle of C’s when seen. Repair label: “reparée / par Jean-Petit luthier / à Besançon an 1834,” glued next to Cole label.

DHV: 1130 Tourin ID: Size: Bass Place Made: Maker: I Cremona Antonio & Girolamo Amati Date: 1597 Label Text: Antonius, & Hieronymus Fr. Amati / Cremonen Andrae fil F. 1597 [printed except 1597] Body Shape: Cello Current Location: USA Washington, DC No. of Strings: -4 Collection: Smithsonian Institution Sound Holes: F Catalog Number: 65.0643; 1991.0406 Head: Scroll Private Owner: Previous Owner: University of Pennsylvania; Sarah Frischmuth Measurements: Body Length: 63.1 String Length: Rib Depth: 10.3 Upper Width: 32.7 Middle Width: 21.6 Bottom Width: 40.6 Information Source: TGM visit 2/93 Literature: Herzog 2003, IT-25; Chiesa 2002, pp. 89-91; Miller 1994, pp. 49-51 Photographs: On museum’s website (FB+S [unstrung], head side, F-holes, top off, underside of top, rib patches, top & bottom blocks [color]); Herzog 2003, IT-25 (FB+S); Chiesa 2002, p. 90 (F+S, head side); Herzog 2002, p. 157 (front); [unpublished, from museum: FB+S, head side; by TGM: label [color, 3/23])] Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Arched back; pointed corners, overhanging edges; fold undone when converted to a cello. Poor condition, with worm damage, cracks, abraded edges of table, etc. Miller 1994: lower two-thirds of body is intact and unmodified; so nearly identical to 1611 Amati bass at Ashmolean that they must have been built from the same mold and pattern. Scroll by Grancino (C. Beare to Smithsonian, 1989). Came to Smithsonian in 1965, but ownership not transferred until 1991. Chiesa 2002: back arching is slight and quite different from that on Amati cellos. (Top off when seen again 3/24)

DHV: 281 Tourin ID: GENEV 01 Size: Pardessus Place Made: Maker: F Paris Antoine Saint-Paul Date: 1774 Label Text: Antonius / Saint Paul / Prope / Commediam / Gallicam / Lutetiae / Anno 1774 [printed except 74] Body Shape: Viol Current Location: CH Geneva No. of Strings: 5 Collection: Musée d’art et d’histoire Sound Holes: C Catalog Number: IM 01 Head: Head Private Owner: Previous Owner: Fritz Ernst, Geneva, -1969 Measurements: Body Length: 32.1 String Length: 31.2 Rib Depth: 4.3 Upper Width: 15.9 Middle Width: 11 Bottom Width: 19.6 Information Source: A.-M. Huwyler to TGM 9/24; J. Deferne to TGM, 2/10; PT visit 10/78 Literature: Photographs: König 1985, p. 89 (front); museum checklist (F [color]); [unpublished, from J. Deferne 2/10: F+B, head back (color)]; [by PT: front (color)] Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Striped back and ribs, double purfling. 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side. J. Deferne’s dimensions 33.0, 15.8/11.4/19.5, 5.1, 31.0.

DHV: 1314 Tourin ID: Size: Treble Place Made: Maker: GB George Gill Date: 16.. Label Text: George Gill [handwritten] Body Shape: Viol Current Location: GB London No. of Strings: -4 Collection: Horniman Museum Sound Holes: C Catalog Number: 15.10.48/35 Head: Scroll Private Owner: Previous Owner: Percy Bull, London, -1948 Measurements: Body Length: 31.2 String Length: Rib Depth: 5.7 Upper Width: 15.7 Middle Width: 11.6 Bottom Width: 19.1 Information Source: Fleming 2001: VME 01 Literature: Fleming 2016, p. 99; Fleming 2001: VME 01 Photographs: Fleming & Bryan 2016, pl. 13 (back and lower ribs [color], p. 67 (label), p. 100 (purfling details); Fleming 2001: VME F01 (front body only), L15 (back, body only), 16-19 (details of decoration) [all color]; www.minim.ac.uk (FB+S, head F+S, many details of decoration, label [color]); [unpublished, from M. Fleming: FB+S, label (color)] Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Fleming 2001: pardessus? Made from pieces of a much larger instrument (bass or large tenor viol), as revealed by decoration designs. 6-piece table with single purfling; back has none; neck not original; modern violin-style pegbox and scroll. Wood of back very similar to Ashmolean’s festooned Rose, with purfled arabesques in exactly the same style. Label probably not old but perhaps a reproduction. Probably made between 1608/9 and 1641 (p. 220).

DHV: 1204 Tourin ID: Size: Pardessus Place Made: Maker: F Mirecourt Jean [III] Vuillaume Date: 1745 Label Text: Body Shape: Viol Current Location: F Paris No. of Strings: 6 Collection: Musée de la musique Sound Holes: C Catalog Number: E.980.2.466 Head: Scroll Private Owner: Previous Owner: Geneviève Thibault, Comtesse de Chambure, -1979; Georges Le Cerf, -1929 Measurements: Body Length: 33 ± String Length: Rib Depth: Upper Width: Middle Width: Bottom Width: Information Source: Museum’s website; Gétreau 1996, p. 737 Literature: Gétreau 1996, p. 737 Photographs: On museum’s website (FB+S, head; front 7/8, head 3/4 [color]); Khazine 2004, p. 8 (back) Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Museum spells maker’s name “Villaume”. Body length estimated from meter stick shown in website photos; widths 15/11/19, ribs 6.5, string length 31.

DHV: 630 Tourin ID: MUNB 01 Size: Treble ? Place Made: Maker: D Norbert Gedler Date: 1721 Label Text: Norbertus Gedler Hochfuerstl. / Hof- Lauten= und Geigen / macher in Wuertzburg im / Jahr 1721 [handwritten, probably late 19/early 20C] Body Shape: Festoon Current Location: D Munich No. of Strings: 5 Collection: Deutsches Museum Sound Holes: Flame Catalog Number: 72125 Head: Cupid Private Owner: Previous Owner: Erich von Lülsdorff, Berlin-Charlottenburg, -1952 Measurements: Body Length: 38.4 String Length: 35 Rib Depth: 4 Upper Width: 18.8 Middle Width: 11.7 Bottom Width: 22.6 Information Source: Wackernagel 1997, pp. 275-76; PT visit 9/78 Literature: Wackernagel 1997, pp. 275-76; Thomas 1978, p. 26 Photographs: Wackernagel 1997, p. 276 (front) Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Wackernagel: “Viola d’amore...ohne Resonanzsaiten”. Body shape perhaps altered. Internal blocks and bars not original, also neck, pegbox, head, fittings, and varnish. 1-piece table with triple purfling; 2-piece back without purfling and ribs (perhaps cut down?) of bird’s-eye maple. Tourin: arm viol?

DHV: 1107 Tourin ID: Size: Bass Place Made: Maker: NL ? Date: Label Text: [None] Body Shape: Festoon Current Location: USA Philadelphia, PA No. of Strings: 6+6 Collection: Private Collection Sound Holes: C Catalog Number: Head: Female Private Owner: Yes Previous Owner: Rosje Baruch de la Pardo (“Miranda”), Hollywood, CA, -1985 Measurements: Body Length: 69.9 String Length: 71.5 Rib Depth: 12.5 Upper Width: 31.2 Middle Width: 23.5 Bottom Width: 38.6 Information Source: TGM visit 8/94 Literature: Photographs: [By TGM: FB+S, head F+S] Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Actually owned by Jonathan Ben Stad, on loan to ASAI. Attribution to Rombouts by former owner retained by ASAI, but no label or papers. Overhanging edges. Currently unfretted; neck barely long enough for 7th fret. Sympathetic strings run only from bottom of neck (to wrestpins in bottom block).

DHV: 740 Tourin ID: PRAG 5 Size: Bass Place Made: Maker: CZ Prague Josef Anton Laske Date: 1765 C Label Text: Body Shape: Current Location: CZ Prague No. of Strings: 6 Collection: Czech Museum of Music (division of Narodni Muzeum) Sound Holes: Catalog Number: 683 E Head: Private Owner: Previous Owner: Measurements: Body Length: 70 String Length: 65 Rib Depth: 12 Upper Width: 31.5 Middle Width: 19.5 Bottom Width: 40 Information Source: Letter from museum to Tourin, 6/79 Literature: Photographs: Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Museum’s measurements evidently only to nearest half cm. Not on display 7/16 (K. Libin) or 10/18 (TGM).

DHV: 1645 Tourin ID: Size: Quinton Place Made: Maker: F Paris Date: 17.. Label Text: Body Shape: Violin ? Current Location: No. of Strings: -4 Collection: Sound Holes: F ? Catalog Number: Head: Private Owner: Previous Owner: Charles-Alphonse, Baron Vidal de Léry, -1910 Measurements: Body Length: String Length: Rib Depth: Upper Width: Middle Width: Bottom Width: Information Source: Herzog 2003, QT-16 Literature: Herzog 2003, QT-16; De Léry 1910, lot 387 Photographs: Recordings: Auctions: Comments: De Léry 1910, lot 387 “Quinton Vieux Paris, monté en violon, avec volute refaite.” Probably not a pardessus, since converted to violin, and De Léry catalogue distinguishes between pardessus and quintons.

DHV: 1172 Tourin ID: Size: Bass Place Made: Maker: D Füssen Jonas Heringer Date: 1641 Label Text: Jonas Heringer / in Füssen. 1641 [printed except 41] Body Shape: Cello Current Location: A Vienna No. of Strings: -4 Collection: Technisches Museum Sound Holes: F Catalog Number: 15.359 Head: Scroll Private Owner: Previous Owner: Measurements: Body Length: 61 String Length: 68.5 Rib Depth: 12.5 Upper Width: 32 Middle Width: 23.9 Bottom Width: 37 Information Source: S. Kirsch to TGM, 1-/13; M. Herzog to TGM, 11/96 Literature: Focht 2013, pp. 38-40, 44; Herzog 2003, D-7 Photographs: Focht 2013, p. 38 (F+B); Herzog 2003, D-27 (front 3/4) [also received directly from Herzog, plus front view]; [unpublished, from S. Kirsch: FB+S (color)] Recordings: Auctions: Comments: On loan to Kunsthistorisches Museum; on display. Converted to cello; body has pointed corners but sloping shoulders; flat back but overhanging edges. Very long and wide F-holes. Width of upper corners 33.6. Repair label: mathias grießer lauten / und geigenmacher in / Insprugg Repar. Ao 1751 (?) [handwritten] Focht 2013: Kleine Bass-Gambe/Bass-Geige (Martius votes for gamba); curvature of upper bouts corresponds to usual S. German gamba model; double purfling on table, single on back (flat, 2-piece with small wings, maybe not maple), with outside moldings on overhanging edges of both; unusually small bass bar and soundpost plate; lower half of neck is original, with through-foot; originally 5 or 6 strings; dimensions 90.9, 33.5/24.0/34.1, -, -.