Giovanni Battista Grancino I, Milan, 1707, the 'Max Aronoff'
Viola: 41226
Back: One-piece, slab-cut, with the Coat of Arms and crown of the House of Bourbon ornamented under the fingerboard
Top: an inlaid rosetta lies beneath the fingerboard
Varnish: Golden-yellow
Length of back: 42.9 cm
Upper bouts: 19.6 cm
Middle bouts: 13.5 cm
Lower bouts: 24.4 cm
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Notes:
This instrument has not been reduced in size.The History of the Viola, Volume 2, Maurice W. Riley, The History of the Viola, Volume II
Provenance
| Burton Fine | |
| Max Aronoff | |
| Anonymous | |
| in 1943 | Sold by Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. |
| from 1943 | Current owner |
Known players
Kathryn Plummer, Max Aronoff
References
Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst (8th Edition), Hamma & Co., Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven (illustrated)- Private Archives - 10746
- Journal of the Violin Society of America, Vol. XIV, No. 3, Philip J. Kass, The Queens College Press, Flushing, NY (illustrated)
- The History of the Viola, Volume II, Maurice W. Riley (illustrated)
- W. E. Hill & Sons Photographic Archive (illustrated)
- Wurlitzer Rare Violas by Celebrated Makers of the 16th-19th centuries, Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., New York (illustrated)
Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst (8th Edition), Hamma & Co., Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven (illustrated)
