DHV:
123
Tourin ID:
BOEHM 2
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Munich
Date:
Label Text:
Paulus Alletsee fecit Monachii 1735
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
CH
Reinach
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Beat Boehm, Zurich, 1956-96; August Wenzinger, Basel -1956
Measurements:
Body Length:
69.5
String Length:
67
Rib Depth:
12.5
Upper Width:
36
Middle Width:
23
Bottom Width:
44
Information
Source:
T. Boehm via G. Eccher to TGM, 2/25; B. Boehm to G. Lyman, c.1962
Literature:
Photographs:
[Unpublished, from owner: front]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Festooning confined to center bout; square shoulders. 1992 appraisal by Rudolf Isler (Glarus): heavily built; back probably cut down from a larger instrument (violone?), with table, ribs, and head from the 2H19C but made to look old, with scratches imitating repaired cracks and painted craquelure. So label (and date) may well be fake, especially because Alletsee died in 1733. Letter from Wenzinger to G. Boehm says this was his concert instrument for many years, so likely the same as DHV 1065, an otherwise unknown Alletsee bass played by Alexander Molzahn for the 1954 recording of the Purcell fantasies directed by Wenzinger (though there dated 1725).