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Large tenor viol or lyra or small division viol.
Technical description: Soundboard of spruce; back, ribs, neck and head of sycamore; fingerboard of stained pear(?); tail peg of ebony; pegs black stained fruitwood with ivory dots; nut of ivory. The tailpiece was attached violin-method with an ivory tail-gut protector let into the soundboard. Inked lines to imitate purfling. C-holes. Plugged hole in the soundboard for where it was attached to the lower block. Stiffening supports on back in the soundpost region and at the fold; the corners are stiffened inside. Brown varnish; fine figure on the one piece back, rising from right to left. Violin type scroll. Neck 272 long; fingerboard 398 long, 49 wide at nut, 64 wide at bottom, hollowed out underneath along its length in the centre. Cut marks for frets, unevenly spaced.
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-1734 - Maker:
Hintz, Johann Frederick - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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London/England - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.322-71
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.322-71
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:1013
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/18469