DHV:
102
Tourin ID:
BERB 01
Size:
Treble
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Rouen
Robert
Cotton
Date:
16..
Label Text:
Robert Cotton / A Rouen [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Berlin
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
2477
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
C.C. Snoeck, Ghent, 1873-1902
Measurements:
Body Length:
36.2
String Length:
37.1
Rib Depth:
8.5
Upper Width:
16.5
Middle Width:
13
Bottom Width:
21.5
Information
Source:
Otto & Adelmann 1975, p. 102
Literature:
Otto & Adelmann 1975, p. 102; Sachs 1922, col. 114; Lütgendorff 1922, 2:88; Jacquot 1912, p. ??; Snoeck 1894, p. 101
Photographs:
Snoeck 1894, facing p. 104 (front 3/4); [unpublished, from museum: head]; [by TGM 11/10, on display: front 3/4, head front (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Table, neck, head, fingerboard, and tailpiece not original. Snoeck 1894: taille ou ténor de viole ou viole batarde; body length 36 cm, rib height 9 cm. Lütgendorff 1922: “von sonderbarem und ungewöhnlichem Modell, rot lackiert”; no information on the maker could be found in Rouen; says Jacquot suggested he may have been English. (This suggestion actually comes from Snoeck himself, whom Jacquot quotes, also about purchase in 1873.) Sachs 1922 dimensions 36.5, 16/-/21, 9, -. Otto & Adelmann 1975: many crack repairs; tailpiece new. Upper bout small in relation to lower. Back of ash.