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Bass viol
'Festooned body. Back of two pieces of sycamore. Belly of two pieces of pine, with purfled ornament and soundholes of a serpentine shape (once wavy altered to f form); also a rose with an eagle, finely carved, partly gilt. Tailpiece and fingerboard decorated with a marquetry pattern in ebony and ivory. The instrument has been renecked at some date with the neck of the violoncello type.The pegbox, with a carved head of a woman with hair tied in a bow in the eighteenth century manner, was originally a viol pegbox for six strings, tghe wholse for two of them now being plugged.' - Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard insturments. (London, 1998), p. 5 - 6.
- Date:
1639 (made) - Maker:
Hiltz, Paul - Collection:
Victoria and Albert Museum - Inventory number:
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Nuremberg
- Measurements:Length: 121 cm total, Length: 70 cm belly, Depth: 13 cm, Width: 39.5 cm maximum
- View the original record:http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O58903