DHV:
107
Tourin ID:
BERB 06
Size:
Pardessus ?
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Munich
Sebastian
Mayr
Date:
1720
Label Text:
Sebastian Mayr Lauden / Vnd Geigenmacher / in Minchen anno 17200 [handwritten; date sic]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Berlin
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
4799
Head:
Angel
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Dr. Leopold Paur, Freiburg i Br., -1962; Fritz Wildhagen
Measurements:
Body Length:
31.5
String Length:
30.8
Rib Depth:
4.6
Upper Width:
17.8
Middle Width:
12.2
Bottom Width:
20
Information
Source:
Otto & Adelmann 1975, p. 108
Literature:
Otto & Adelmann 1975, p. 108
Photographs:
[Unpublished, from A. Otterstedt 2/07: FB+S, head front, treble soundhole (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Otto & Adelmann 1975: pardessus. Neck, fingerboard, tailpiece, and pegbox are new; head old but does not belong to body (perhaps from a viola d’amore: blindfolded). Upper bout has been cut down, neck rounded. 1-piece back; tailgut. 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side. TGM visit 11/10 (no measurements): head grafted to pegbox, which is integral with the neck; edging of table, FB + TP might be tortoise-shell, or more likely an imitation; arching very high and steep, starting just inboard of C-bouts. Probably not originally a 5-string pardessus, given the early date and German origin; more plausibly a cut-down treble (not as likely a viola d’amore, due to C rather than flame holes).