Violon-ténor

Violon-ténor 1. Fr.: tenor violin; 2. tenor violin designed by B. Dubois, double-bass player of the Paris Opéra, with a body length of 43½ cm. (17⅛ in.), an over-all length of 71 cm. (28 in.), height of ribs 8 cm. (3⅛ in.). A surviving specimen in the Heyer Collection at the Karl Marx University, Leipzig, is dated 1833. The instr. was tuned G0d0a0e1, an oct. below the violin (26). Besseler, Heinrich. Zum Problem der Tenorgeige. Heidelberg, 1949.