Bass viola da gamba
ALTERNATE NAME(S)
- Bass viol
Maker
Hoffmann
Distributor
Hans-Hermann Kuhl
Date1969
Place MadeGermany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedBranded on back button: A / HBranded on inside of back: EN
Gold and black sticker on back of pegbox: Made in Germany
Markingsnone
DescriptionTop: two-piece spruce: narrow grain broadening to wide at the edges; C-shaped soundholes
Back: two-piece quarter-cut maple: very narrow curl
Sides: quarter-cut maple: very narrow curl
Head and neck: maple with faint, broad curl; pegbox terminates in a woman's head
Fingerboard and tailpiece: rosewood
Pegs: rosewood
DimensionsBack length: 722 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number02460
On View
Not on view
1700-1750 ca.
