DHV:
1600
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Hamburg
Joachim
Tielke
Date:
1719
Label Text:
IOACHIM TIELKE // in Hamburg, An. 1719 [small format, printed except 17 and 9, altered from printed 16-- by writing 9 over the 6]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Essen
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
[another private owner in Germany]
Measurements:
Body Length:
70.7
String Length:
Rib Depth:
13
Upper Width:
31.5
Middle Width:
23.4
Bottom Width:
39.5
Information
Source:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 370-73
Literature:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 370-73
Photographs:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 371-72 (underside of table, body open, head FB+S [color, during restoration])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Hellwig 2011, TieWV 165; not in Hellwig 1980. 2-piece table with purfling, 2-piece back, slightly arched, with carved ornament glued on along nearly full length of center joint but no purfling. Neck not original, pegbox with plain sides but open carved back. Repair label: “Repariert Heinrich Beneke / Auf den Dohm zu Ratzeburg / Im Jahr 1803” [handwritten], probably at time of cello conversion. Restored (including new varnish) by Reinhard Fischer, Hamburg, in 2005. Back widths 31.1/22.8/3.39.2; front with calipers 29.8/21.9/38.8.