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Treble viol
'Belly of a single piece of pine, and back of a single piece of sycamore, both with simulated purfling [bordering] in black paint. The neck is probably a replacement, with crude pegbox and scroll both stippled and gouged in simple decoration. Modern tortoiseshell tailpiece attached to a hook-bar. Tortoiseshell fingerboard with ebony edges. Six ebony pegs and six strings. The bridge is stamped PANPI.' Anthony Baines, Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), p. 8.
- Date:
about 1730 (Made) - Maker:
Gaviniés, François - Collection:
Victoria and Albert Museum - Inventory number:
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Bordeaux
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- Materials:Planed sycamore back and sides; planed and drilled pine belly, tortoiseshell fingerboard with ebony edging; turned ebony pegs.
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- Inscriptions:'[Gavini]niés/ [Bor]deaux/ f .. PANPI
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:
- Repository:Victoria and Albert Museum
- Measurements:Length: 61 cm total, Length: 33.5 cm length of body, Length: 32 cm string length, Depth: 7.5 cm, Width: 16 cm upper bout, Width: 20 cm lower bout
- View the original record:http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O177026