DHV:
185
Tourin ID:
BRUS 54
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Munich
Adam
Mayr
Date:
171
Label Text:
Adam Mayr / Geigenmacher / ob der Au / negst Munchen / 171.
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
B
Brussels
No. of Strings:
7
Collection:
Musée des instruments de musique
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
0228
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
François-Joseph Fétis, Brussels
Measurements:
Body Length:
66
String Length:
68.5?
Rib Depth:
12.5
Upper Width:
30.4
Middle Width:
21
Bottom Width:
39
Information
Source:
PT visits 6/77 & 9/78
Literature:
Raspé 1972, p. 218-19; Mahillon 2/1893, 1:323
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+S [color]; FB+S, F+B body only, head FB+S, details of neck heel, tailpiece, and hookbar); [unpublished, in Heale Archive, from museum: front]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Raspé 1972 dimensions 123.4, 66.2, 30.2/20.6/38.8, 11.6, 66.0. Back of pegbox has 7 holes in V-layout for sympathetic-string tuning pins/pegs. Body’s lower corners are inner rather than outer; tailpiece sides are scalloped. Museum’s website: viola bastarda, lyra viol. Tourin string length 68-69.