DHV:
1564
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Samuel
Gilkes
Date:
1826
Label Text:
Samuel Gilkes / fecit London 1826
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Leipzig
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Maria Depiereux, Düsseldorf, -2016; Alfred Lessing, Düsseldorf
Measurements:
Body Length:
57
String Length:
63.6
Rib Depth:
9
Upper Width:
27.8
Middle Width:
17.6
Bottom Width:
34.5
Information
Source:
Owner to TGM, 11/14, 12/15; T. Muthesius to TGM, 11/10
Literature:
Photographs:
Fritzsch 2017a (front [color]); [unpublished, from T. Fritzsch 2/17: front (color) and 9/16: front (color); from previous owner via T. Fritzsch 11/14: FB+S, head FB+S, bottom rib (color); from T. Muthesius 11/10: front body only]
Recordings:
Fritzsch 2020a (19th-C. Viol); Fritzsch 2017a (JC Bach Quartets)
Auctions:
Comments:
Arched back, tailgut, overhanging edges. Soundholes long, narrow, with smooth single curve (not multiple wiggles), widest in middle, with no eyes top or bottom. Neck, pegbox and scroll original, per T. Fritzsch (to TGM, 6/16). Before restoration 2016, string length was 62.7.