Pietro Antonio Dalla Costa, Treviso, 1750
Viola: 44939
Back: in one-piece of cherry wood cut on the slab.
Top: in one piece of spruce.
Scroll: of maple
Ribs: of cherry wood
Varnish: Medium dark orange brown
Length of back: 41.0 cm
Upper bouts: 19.8 cm
Middle bouts: 13.5 cm
Lower bouts: 23.7 cm
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Notes:
This instrument has not been reduced.The History of the Viola, Volume 2, Maurice W. Riley, The History of the Viola, Volume II
References
A Thousand Mornings of Music, Arnold Gingrich, Crown Publishers, New York (illustrated)- Private Archives - 10746
- The Emil Herrmann Collection - Part I, Andy Lim & Gregory Singer, Darling Publications, Cologne / New York (illustrated)
- The History of the Viola, Volume II, Maurice W. Riley (illustrated)
- The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)