Viola d’amore by Thomas Andreas Hulintzky

Prague, 1774

 

This viola d’amore was converted into a five-string viola sometime in the 18th C. The remains of the original long pegbox shows unmistakeable traces of the set-up for the sympathetic strings, which once ran behind the fingerboard. It has been left in this condition. Several of the original peg holes, now not needed, were sealed with wooden plugs, visible on the photos above.

 

 

Body length	380 mm
Upper width	185 mm
Middle width	120 mm
Lower width	232 mm
Rib height	42-49 mm
String length	368 mm