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Description: | Martin Voigt in Hamburg me fecit 1726 Martin Voigt made me in Hamburg 1726
The unique surviving example of Voigt’s work, this exquisite instrument and matching bow recall the opulent decoration of Joachim Tielke, with whom Voigt may have trained. The neck is decorated with four Greek gods and goddesses -- Apollo, Venus, Mercury and Diana -- inlaid in mother of pearl. In Greek mythology Mercury was supposed to have invented the lyre, and Apollo excelled at playing it. The lyre was traditionally regarded as the ancestor of viols.
6 string bass viol. Belly of two pieces of pine, double purfled in ebony. Back of twenty-five strips of ebony with ivory stringing, and the sides similar of nine strips. Wooden side linings. Neck root and open scroll of ebony inlaid with mother-of-pearl engraved, as are also the ebony tailpiece, hook-bar and fingerboard. The back of the neck is veneered alternately with ivory and ebony strips. Ivory nut. Six pegs. With matching bow. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | ivory ebony viols mother of pearl | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-198030 |
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