Objekt 2
Violin
Description
The violin by Krouchdaler as well as the double-bass Nr. 5 by Stoppel were not built in Basel; as instruments, they belong however to the so-called Alemanic School.
Object description
Hans Krouchdaler (1652/55–documented after 1699)
Oberbalm near Berne, dated 1665
Hans Krouchdaler / uf Leimen in der Kirchiiri / Oberbalm 1665 (manuscript, paper, back inside) spruce (belly, two parts ); maple (back, one part, ribs, neck, peg-box;) light-brown, transparent varnish
L. 605 mm, 368 mm (belly), 327 mm (strings)
Donation Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Estate Albert Riemeyer, Zurich
lnv. 1957.419.