Description
This instrument has been SOLD.
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The original instrument was made by Hans Burkholtzer in Füssen in 1596 and is now in the Vienna Kunsthisorisches Museum, item number SAM 44. It began life as a seven- or eight-course instrument, and there is a label inside which indicates that Thomas Edlinger of Prague converted it to eleven courses in 1705. At some date after 1719 an unknown craftsman added the bass rider and extended the bridge to make a thirteen-course instrument.
The back of this instrument is made from two spectacular bird's eye maple boards to create a light / dark effect.
Instrument Specifications:
- String Length: 70.5cm
- Thirteen Courses
- Back: Bird's Eye Maple with Ebony Spacers
- Front: Figured Sitka Spruce
- Rose: Copy of the Original
- Front Binding: Ebony with Ebony/Mother-of-Pearl Heart
- Neck: Spruce Core with Ebony Veneer
- Fingerboard: Ebony with Points
- Head: Bird's Eye Maple Frame with Maple Bass Treble Riders
- Head Front Rails: Ebony/Holly Running Dog Decoration
- Head Plate: Ebony Vine Decoration on a Holly Bass
- Bass Rider: Maple with Ebony Lining
- Treble Rider: Maple
- Pegs: Ebony
- Strap Button: Ebony
- Nut: Bone
- Strings: Nylon and Fluorocarbon with Wound Nylon Basses
- Custom Made Kingham Case
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