Viola da Gamba Society of America

DHV: 161 Tourin ID: BRUS 27 Size: Bass Place Made: Maker: I Treviso ? Pietro Zenatto ? Date: 1680 C ? Label Text: Body Shape: Guitar Current Location: B Brussels No. of Strings: 6 Collection: Musée des instruments de musique Sound Holes: F Catalog Number: 1419 Head: Scroll Private Owner: Previous Owner: Count Pietro Correr, Venice, -1886 Measurements: Body Length: 61 String Length: 62 Rib Depth: 12.7 Upper Width: 26.3 Middle Width: 20.6 Bottom Width: 33.7 Information Source: PT visits 6/77 & 9/78 Literature: Moens 2004, p. 83; Mahillon 1900, 3:46 Photographs: On museum’s website (front, side 3/4 [color]) Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Moens 2004 (citing oral communication from Peter Klein, Hamburg): dendrochronology suggests table made from a tree not cut down until after 1875; wood from same tree used for nos. 1417-20 and 1422. Museum’s website: “viole bâtarde, auteur inconnu”. Mahillon (and website): viole bâtarde; Mahillon: label “Zanetto [sic?] fece in Treviso”; table with double purfling.

DHV: 1674 Tourin ID: Size: Violone Place Made: Maker: I Date: 17.. Label Text: Body Shape: Cello Current Location: I Verona No. of Strings: 6 Collection: Private Collection Sound Holes: F Catalog Number: Head: Scroll Private Owner: Yes Previous Owner: Artemio Versari, Bologna Measurements: Body Length: 84 String Length: Rib Depth: 16 Upper Width: Middle Width: Bottom Width: Information Source: Owner to TGM, 1/17 Literature: Photographs: [Unpublished, from owner 1/17: FB+S, head side (color)] Recordings: Rasi 2014a (Concerto di Viole) Auctions: Comments: G tuning. CD notes give date “ca. 1700” but owner’s documentation says “2nd half of the XVIII?” Played on recordings by Riccardo Coelati Rama.

DHV: 1527 Tourin ID: Size: Quinton Place Made: Maker: F Mirecourt Jean Colin Date: 17.. Label Text: I. Colin [brand stamp] Body Shape: Violin Current Location: No. of Strings: 5 Collection: Sound Holes: F Catalog Number: Head: Open scroll Private Owner: Yes? Previous Owner: Measurements: Body Length: 36.8 String Length: Rib Depth: Upper Width: Middle Width: Bottom Width: Information Source: Tarisio website for auction ending 10/14/09, lot 340 Literature: Tarisio website for auction ending 10/14/09, lot 340 Photographs: On Tarisio website for auction ending 10/14/09, lot 340 (F+B, head side [color]) Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Tarisio 2009/10/14, lot 340 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side. Back presumably arched and edges overhanging. Body length taken on back. Pegbox has mid-length points both front and back, with La Fille-style perimeter decoration; open scroll has small flower at center. (Tarisio listed place made as Paris.) (Colin active 1744-88.)

DHV: 269 Tourin ID: GAL 01, GALP 1 Size: Treble Place Made: Maker: GB Date: 16.. Label Text: [None] Body Shape: Viol Current Location: GB Teddington No. of Strings: 6 Collection: Private Collection Sound Holes: C Catalog Number: Head: Male Private Owner: Yes Previous Owner: L. H. Lock (in 1951 and 1968; until 1993); Marco Pallis (in 1930) Measurements: Body Length: 37 String Length: 35.6 Rib Depth: 7.5 Upper Width: 18.2 Middle Width: 13.2 Bottom Width: 21.3 Information Source: Fleming 2001: VME 05; Galpin Society 1968, p. 77 (no. 586) and pl. XXXII/1 Literature: Fleming 2001: VME 05; Segerman 1996, p. 273; Galpin Society 1968, p. 77 (no. 586); IAML-Galpin 1959, p. 273; Galpin Society 1951; Hayes 1930, pp. 49, 249 Photographs: Fleming 2001: VME F05 (front body only [color]); Galpin Society 1968, pl. XXXII/1 (front); Hayes 1930, pl. 4 (front 3/4); [unpublished, in Heale Archive, on display in 1951: front 3/4] Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Hayes 1930: ribs very deep (8.0), large sound holes placed low in relation to bouts. Had been converted to viola, but body and head original. No label, but “it may with safety be ascribed to England at the end of the sixteenth century”; then owned by Marco Pallis. IAML-Galpin 1959: “16th century”. Galpin 1968: 1-piece back, single purfling; head is a Greek mask. Segerman 1996: Michael Heale reports neck and pegbox fitted by Dolmetsch in the ‘20s, and back fold in lower bouts straightened out; body more likely c. 1640 than c. 1580. Soundholes virtually identical to Turner 1646 [recte 1656] treble ex-Hill, sold at Sotheby’s 12/91, lot 80. Fleming 2001: 3-7 piece table with single purfling. (Unpublished condition report by T. Mace, 9/13, adds: body from 3Q17C; head old but probably not original; interior pencil inscriptions: “Restored at Jesses Workshop / Haslemere / Surrey / 1927” and “Rep. Oktober 1959 / A.D. Ltd.” Dimensions (on back) 37.2, 18.4/12.7/21.1, 7.3, 35.7. 1-piece back, 3-piece table perhaps pine not spruce, single purfling on both. Top block original; no corner blocks, only cloth. Overall condition relatively poor, especially table (cracks, worm damage, deformation), but varnish of extraordinary quality and well preserved in some places.

DHV: 1027 Tourin ID: Size: Bass Place Made: Maker: Date: Label Text: Body Shape: Viol Current Location: USA Newark, NJ No. of Strings: 6 Collection: Newark Museum Sound Holes: C Catalog Number: 59.332 Head: Scroll Private Owner: Previous Owner: Russell Barclay Kingman, Orange, NJ, -1959 Measurements: Body Length: 69.9 String Length: 69.7 Rib Depth: 11.7 Upper Width: 31 Middle Width: 22.4 Bottom Width: 41.5 Information Source: TGM visit 11/93 Literature: Photographs: [By TGM: FB+S, bridge detail] Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Poor condition: many joints unglued, 2 big cracks in table. Rib height includes decorative strips top and bottom, adding 1.5 cm. No back fold. Odd bridge with crossbar between feet. Now unfretted. Half of repair label: “John A... / Repairer of ... / Musical Instru... / Brook C...”

DHV: 901 Tourin ID: VIENNA 10 Size: Bass Place Made: Maker: A Vienna Antony Posch Date: 1736 Label Text: Antony Posch / Kay. Hoff Lauthen / Macher in Wien Ao 1736 [printed] Body Shape: Viol Current Location: A Vienna No. of Strings: 7 Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Sound Holes: C Catalog Number: IN. 41 Head: Moor Private Owner: Previous Owner: Measurements: Body Length: 68.5 String Length: 73 Rib Depth: 12.3 Upper Width: 31.7 Middle Width: 21.7 Bottom Width: 39.7 Information Source: [TGM visit 12/06]; museum to TGM, 8/96 Literature: Photographs: [By TGM, on display: front (color)] Recordings: Klangführer 1993, track 9.8 Auctions: Comments: Back (two-piece) and ribs of birdeye maple. Hookbar. 4 pegs treble, 3 bass side. Table has significant recurve. In 12/06, displayed with quintet of violin-family instruments by same maker; museum audioguide says they are in original condition, implying that this is not; used in a concert May 2017.

DHV: 417 Tourin ID: KOPEA 06 Size: Treble ? Place Made: Maker: Date: Label Text: Body Shape: Current Location: DK Copenhagen No. of Strings: 6 Collection: Danish Music Museum/Claudius Samling Sound Holes: Flame Catalog Number: 244/64 Head: Child Private Owner: Previous Owner: Measurements: Body Length: 39.5 String Length: 36 Rib Depth: 6 Upper Width: Middle Width: Bottom Width: 23.5 Information Source: Skjerne 1931, p. 197 Literature: Skjerne 1931, p. 197 Photographs: Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Tourin: arm viol.

DHV: 878 Tourin ID: VIC 02, KENS 6 Size: Treble Place Made: Maker: GB London (Southwark) Henry Jaye Date: 1667 Label Text: Henry Jaye in / Southwarke / 1667 [handwritten] Body Shape: Viol Current Location: GB London No. of Strings: 6 Collection: Victoria & Albert Museum Sound Holes: C Catalog Number: 173-1882 Head: Open scroll Private Owner: Previous Owner: Carl Engel (in 1872, 1876) Measurements: Body Length: 43.2 String Length: 42.5 Rib Depth: 9.1 Upper Width: 20.3 Middle Width: 15 Bottom Width: 25.8 Information Source: Fleming 2001: VME 17; Pringle (drawing and text) 1979; PT visit 6/77 Literature: Fleming 2016, pp. 199-200; Fleming 2007, p. 30 (JP 11); Fleming 2001: VME 17; König 1985, p. 31; Coates 1985, pp. 44-47; Baines 1968, p. 3; Engel 1876, p. 68; Engel 1874, pp. 338-9; Engel 1872, p. 22 (no. 160) Photographs: On museum’s website (front [color], FB+SS, head F+S, rosette); Fleming 2001: VME F17 (front body only), L30 (rosette), L58 (back, bottom rib) [all color]; Woodfield & Robinson 2001, 26:673, fig. 12b (front); König 1985, p. 36 (front); Harwood 1981, p. 473 (front); Woodfield & Robinson 1980, 3:745, fig. 11b (front); Woodfield & Robinson 1980, 19:800, fig. 11b (front); Baines 1968, fig. 1 (front, back 3/4) Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Fleming 2001: treble/tenor; Pringle 1979 and König 1985: alto; Baines 1968: small tenor; Engel 1872: “Counter-tenor viol”. Baines: Ribs cut down and back bent in lower bout for playing on shoulder. Pegbox original; decoration of it and body very similar to 1624 Jaye bass in Paris; label identical. Soundpost plate probably original; fingerboard and tailpiece not. Back and ribs of sycamore [recte: plum], except lower fold of mahogany. Rosette; purfling around soundholes. Bridge design unusual, maybe 18th C. Fleming 2001: 7-piece table with purfled oval rose; double purfling front and back; original neck (though angle and length altered), also pegbox and head. Fleming 2016: Jaye died in 1636; this viol perhaps by Robert Jay, a fellow Fletcher and parishioner who may have been a brother or cousin. On display 10/01 + 8/03: scroll and pegbox heavily carved, also neck foot. Drawing by Pringle (1979) available from museum. König 1985 dimensions: 44.2, 20.4/14.9/26.0, 9.0, 42.5.

DHV: 216 Tourin ID: CALD 16 Size: Bass Place Made: Maker: GB London William Turner Date: 1650 Label Text: Made by William Turner, at ye / Hande and Crowne in Gravelle Lane / nere Aldgate, London. 1650 / Facsimile of label damaged and removed in restoration 1950 [handwritten] Body Shape: Viol Current Location: USA New York, NY No. of Strings: 6 Collection: Private Collection Sound Holes: C Catalog Number: Head: Open scroll Private Owner: Yes Previous Owner: James Caldwell, Oberlin, OH, 1982-98; Michael Heale, -1982; Leonard H. Lock, Guildford, Surrey, England; Dolmetsch Measurements: Body Length: 67 String Length: 69.1 Rib Depth: 12.1 Upper Width: 32 Middle Width: 24.6 Bottom Width: 39.2 Information Source: TGM visits 7/92 (Caldwell) and 9/99 (Rozendaal) Literature: Photographs: Rozendaal 2009+2011 (Trio ‘700/German+French)(front [color]); Rozendaal 2008 (rosette [color]; [by TGM: FB+S, head side, rosette]; [unpublished, in Heale Archive: front] Recordings: LeStrange Viols 2018; Rozendaal 2016 (Couperin); Rozendaal 2012 (Trio ‘700/English); Rozendaal 2009 (Trio ‘700/German); Rozendaal 2008 (Breaking the Ground); Rozendaal 2004 (Marais) Auctions: Comments: Heart-shaped rosette. Turner label is facsimile by Dolmetsch; their own label also present: “Repaired by / Arnold Dolmetsch / Haslemere / 1950” [printed except Repaired by, 1950]. Neck and head probably by Dolmetsch; fingerboard and tailpiece by M. Heale, who restored it for Caldwells. (TGM’s photos taken after later restoration by John Pringle for John Mark Rozendaal.)

DHV: 859 Tourin ID: TIELK127 Size: Bass Place Made: Maker: D Hamburg Joachim Tielke Date: 1708 Label Text: JOACHIM TIELKE // in Hamburg, An. 1708 [small format, printed except 708, altered from printed 16—] Body Shape: Viol Current Location: CH No. of Strings: 7 Collection: Private Collection Sound Holes: C Catalog Number: Head: Lion Private Owner: Yes Previous Owner: Sylvia Grümmer, Oberwil bei Zug, Switzerland (in 1980); Paul Grümmer, Zollikon (d. 1965); bought from a doctor in Breslau Measurements: Body Length: 66.8 String Length: Rib Depth: 12.6 Upper Width: 30.5 Middle Width: 22.4 Bottom Width: 38 Information Source: Hellwig 2011, pp. 361-62; Hellwig 1980, p. 311 Literature: Hellwig 2011, pp. 361-62; Hellwig 1980, p. 311 Photographs: Hellwig 2011, p. 361 (F+B [color]) Recordings: Auctions: Comments: Hellwig 2011, TieWV 157; Hellwig 1980, no. 127. 2-piece table with narrow ivory edging and double purfling; 2-piece back (arched) with ivory edging and double purfling. Pegbox with open-carved back (lower end not original) and ivory edging; 7th peg not original; neck not original. Paul Grümmer played it in concerts for many years. Hellwig adds: repair label “... Repar. von Ernst Liebich / Hof-Instrumentenmacher / BRESLAU 1914 ... [printed except 1914]. Originally had only 6 strings. Dimensions identical to Hellwig 1980. Sylvia Grümmer played it with Berlin Philharmonic under Furtwängler. Modern tailpiece with tailgut.