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Musical instruments

Instrument making according to historical models

Tenor viol - 2018

English model

String length: 535 mm

Total length:

Body lenth:

Weight: 1,18 Kg

Belly: Spruce

Ribs: Maple

Back in two parts: Maple

Nut: Ebony

Pegs: Ebony

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Tenor viol - 2019 "la Muse Naissante"

English model

String length: 535 mm

Total length: 965 mm

Body lenth: 510 mm

Weight: 1,16 Kg

Belly: Spruce

Ribs: Maple

Back in two parts: Maple

Nut: Bone

Pegs: Boxwood

Bass viol 7 strings - 2019

After Bass viol 7 strings, 1683 by Michel Collichon, Paris

Musée de la musique Inv. E.98.2.667

String length: 689 mm

Total length: 1 252 mm

Body length: 660 mm

Weight: 2,16 Kg

Belly (bent in five parts): Spruce

Ribs: Maple

Back in two parts: Maple

Nut: Bone

Pegs: Ebony

Bridge after a painting by Alexandre-François Desportes, 1661-1743, Paris.

"Animaux, fleurs et fruits" - 1717

Grenoble. Musée des Beaux Arts

Crédit photographique : VILLE DE GRENOBLE / MUSÉE DE GRENOBLE-J.L. LACROIX

9284_881_Desportes-Animaux-fleurs-et-fru

Bass viol 6 strings - 2020 "La Barricade Mystérieuse"

after Bass viol 6 strings, ca.1680 by Richard Meares, RCM London (RCM0936)

String length: 700 mm

Total length: 1265 mm

Body length: 667 mm

Weight: 1,90 Kg

Bent front 7 pieces: Spruce

Ribs: Maple

Back in two parts: Maple

Nut: Bone

Pegs: Pear wood and bone

Treble viol 6 strings - 2020 "Le lys naissant"

after William Turner, Treble viol 6-strings, 1652, The Caldwell Collection of viols, and Treble viol 6-strings, 1647, Orphéon Collection

Vibrating length "Diapason": 402 mm

Total length: 767 mm

Boot length: 410 mm

Weight: 0.77 Kg

Bent front in seven parts: Spruce

Ribs: Maple

Back in two parts: Maple

Nut: Ebony

Pegs: Pear tree