DHV:
118
Tourin ID:
BERB 17
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
A
Absam
Jacob
Stainer
Date:
1665
Label Text:
Jacobus Stainer in Absam / prope OEnipontum. 1665 [printed except 5]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Berlin
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
244
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Joseph Joachim, Berlin, -1888
Measurements:
Body Length:
71.3
String Length:
66.8?
Rib Depth:
13.4
Upper Width:
31.7
Middle Width:
22.5
Bottom Width:
41.2
Information
Source:
Otto & Adelmann 1975, p. 119
Literature:
Muthesius 2005, p. 170; Otterstedt 2004, p. 121; Herzog 2003, D-9; Hopfner & Seipel 2003, p. 170; Senn & Roy 1986, p. 216 (A99); Otto & Adelmann 1975, p. 119; Sachs 1922, col. 119
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front 7/8 [color]); Muthesius 2019, pp. 6–7 (F+B body only; top block); Moens 1996, p. 26 (with table removed, underside of table); Berlin 1988, p. 231 (old & new heads); Senn & Roy 1986, pp. 400-05 (F 3/4, B+S with old neck and head, F-holes, shoulder detail); Lütgendorff 1922, 1:161 (front 3/4); [by TGM 11/10, on display: front 3/4 (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Stolen 1945, returned 1951. Back and ribs of bird’s-eye maple. Senn & Roy dimensions (on back?): 71.4, 31.0/22.3/40.6, 13.4. New neck, pegbox, and scroll by Ingo Muthesius, 1982, after Harnoncourt’s 1667 Stainer; photo of old and new in Berlin 1988. (Otto & Adelmann 1975: neck and head not original, probably 19th C, too short, narrow, and thick. Old head described by Senn & Roy as a putto and probably 19th-century work; by Berlin 1988 as a neo-baroque angel head.) Hopfner & Seipel 2003: youngest year-ring on table dated 1624; both halves from same tree. Muthesius 2005: very similar to Harnoncourt’s Stainer, with identical wood; had a cello neck and non-original angel head.