German Consort Bass Viol
date: label: date made
content: 1725-1735
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This bass viol was made by an unknown maker in Southern Germany, about 1730. It is a Concert Bass Viol, made of a two-piece table of even, fine-grained spruce, two-piece back of maple cut on the slab with faint, fine horizontal figure, ribs of similar maple, grafted maple neck and 18th-century maple pegbox and scroll with even medium figure, and opaque dark-brown varnish. There is a handwritten label inside the instrument:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Sebastian Mayr Lauten und.<br>Geigenmacher in München</p>
label: Description
content: <p>In size, the body of this viol is that of a large consort bass. The overall workmanship of the instrument is rather rough and without ornament or inlaid purfling. The body is heavily ravaged by woodworm and is in a poor state of preservation. The body has been completely re-varnished and the table, originally from a large German viol of the period, has been cut and reduced at the edges to fit the back and ribs. The instrument bears an interesting 18th-century southern German ornamental six-string pegbox and closed scroll with two volutes.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Yale University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.60.1417
label: accession number
content: 229483
label: catalog number
content: 60.1417
objectType: label: Object Name
content: viol
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: spruce (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 16 3/8 in x 48 1/4 in; 21.59 cm x 41.5925 cm x 122.555 cm