DHV:
1252
Tourin ID:
Size:
Treble ?
Place Made:
Maker:
F ?
Date:
Label Text:
Vincenzo Pompili di Camerino / Rialto nel Maggio 1881
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F
Nice
No. of Strings:
-4
Collection:
Musée du Palais Lascaris
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
C.49 (Fonds Gautier 1764)
Head:
Scroll ?
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Antoine Gautier, Nice, after 1878-1904
Measurements:
Body Length:
36.7
String Length:
34.6
Rib Depth:
3.2
Upper Width:
17.8
Middle Width:
12.4
Bottom Width:
23.1
Information
Source:
TGM visit 5/00; Thevenon 1998, p. 78
Literature:
Adelson 2017, p. 32; Thevenon 1998, p. 78
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F [color]); [by TGM: FB+S, head FB+S]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
2-piece table with moderately high arching and recurve; soundholes have fishtails at both ends (hard to imagine as originally either Cs or normal Fs). 1-piece back, arched with no fold; catalogue says varnish newer here than elsewhere. Table and back overhang ribs (only lower bout has flames). Pegbox grafted to neck, with 2 plugged holes and back only partially fluted; head is a ball carved with suggestion of foliage. Fingerboard and tailpiece of solid, shiny ebony; latter has key-slot holes fairly far from upper edge. Catalogue: “on peut avancer l’hypothese qu’il s’agissait à l’origine d’un dessus de viole à six cordes” later converted into a viola [sic, but BL hardly more than violin); I’m unconvinced. (Name “Pompili” unknown as a luthier; perhaps he did the viola conversion.) Restored by Atelier Véro-Dodat, Paris, 1994 and 1997. Catalogue dimensions: 36.5, 17.5/12.5/12.5 [sic], 3.0, -. Museum’s website: “quinton (ou dessus de viole)”.