DHV:
144
Tourin ID:
BRUS 10
Size:
Tenor
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Venice
Heinrich
Ebert ?
Date:
15..
Label Text:
Hainrich Ebert [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
B
Brussels
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée des instruments de musique
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
1402
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Count Pietro Correr, Venice, -1886
Measurements:
Body Length:
43
String Length:
43
Rib Depth:
9
Upper Width:
21.6
Middle Width:
13.6
Bottom Width:
24.2
Information
Source:
Moens 2002, pp. 104-08; Moens 1995, pp. 192-207; Moens 1987a, pp. 6-10; PT visits 6/77 & 9/78
Literature:
Moens 2002, pp. 104-08; Segerman 2000, pp.24-25; Moens 1995, pp. 192-207; Edmunds 1994, pp. 21-22; Otterstedt 1994, pp. 143-4; Moens 1989, pp. 46-47; Woodfield 1984, pp. 125-27; Edmunds 1980, pp. 75, 80-81; Mahillon 1900, 3:41
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+S [color]); Moens 2002, pp. 105-07; Moens 1995, pp. 193, 196, 198, 201-02, 205 (FB+S, label, inside of front, interior details, neck and head side); Moens 1987a, pp. 7-8 (same as 1995); Edmunds 1994, p. 22 (with table removed); Otterstedt 1994, p. 144 (table); Moens 1989, pp. 46-47; Woodfield 1984, p. 126 (front; with table removed); Paganelli 1966/1970, p. 85 (front); Mahillon 1900, 3:42 (front)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Museum’s website : treble viol, date before 1580 (”incertaine”); Mahillon 1900: dessus de viole, mid-17th C. Edmunds 1980: tenor viol; string length originally 52-55 cm, other dimensions 42.5, 25.5/-/21.5, 10.2. Moens 2002: tenor viol; uses old parts, probably from an early 17th-C. Alpine bass violin; “a premeditated intention to imitate a historical state that never existed.” Moens 1995: many suspicious features; probably made by cutting down a larger instrument (note 2-piece neck). Moens 1989: dendrochronology suggests table no older than 1580; its arching and outline fit exactly between the soundholes of a small double bass. Back has also been cut down from something larger (open worm holes); ribs may have been rebent; fingerboard has been narrowed and shortened. Otterstedt 1994: 1580 date assumes no loss of perimeter wood, but this is an unsafe assumption; viol has been open since 1960s, and table has gradually reverted to original arching; ribs cracked in places from rebending cold so as not to harm existing varnish; neck and pegbox perhaps carved from an existing cello neck. Edmunds 1994: original barrel-vaulted table replaced with a carved one, probably in early 17C. Tourin: maximum string length 47.0. (Website: string length approx. 47)