1664 - Tenor Viola

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Soundboard of one piece of spruce with originals additions in the four lobes. Back of two pieces of curly maple with medium-narrow curl, glued to fish spines with vertex at the top, with originals additions in the lobes. Neck and scroll originals. Golden brown varnish.

Date and Place: 1664, Cremona
Label: Andreas Guarnerius fecit Cremonae sub titulo / Sanctae Teresiae (ms) 1664 - (Original)
Length of body: 48,2 cm
Width, upper bouts: 24.2 cm
Width, center bouts: 16.6 cm
Width, lower bouts: 28.1 cm
Position: Vermillion, South Dakota (USA) - National Music Museum
Inventory: NMM 3354
Provenance: Count Agostino Canal (Venice); Count Pietro Canal (Venice); Count Giuseppe Canal (Venice); Laura di Tocco Canal (Milan); Andrea Bisiach (Milan 1937; Bisiach (Milan) 1967; Laurence C. Witten 1967/84; National Music Museum (University of South Dakota) 1984
Bibliography specifies: Hargrave 1985; Downie Banks 1986; Meyers 1990; Beare 1991; Riley 1991