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DHV:
1610
Tourin ID:

Size:

Bass

Place Made:

Maker:

D

Leipzig

Martin

Hoffmann

Date:

1699

Label Text:

Martin Hoffmann / in Leipzig 1699 [printed except 99]

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

D

Leipzig

No. of Strings:

6

Collection:

Universität Leipzig

Sound Holes:

C

Catalog Number:

5478

Head:

Cherub

Private Owner:

Previous Owner:

Private owner, Baden Württemberg; Dr. Ewald Gutbier, Marburg/Lahn

Measurements:

Body Length:

56.8

String Length:

57.5

Rib Depth:

11.4

Upper Width:

27.1

Middle Width:

20

Bottom Width:

31.2

Information

Source:

Martius 2015, pp. 338-39; K. Martius to TGM, 1/14; museum website

Literature:

Martius 2015, pp. 338-39

Photographs:

On museum’s website (FB+S, head 3/4 [color]); Martius 2015, pp. 338-39 (FB+S, head 7/8, X-ray of rosette and bass bar, label [color])

Recordings:

Auctions:

Comments:

Martius MH 8. Table with double purfling, rosette, and short, original, integral bass bar; back with ink purfling and 3 crossbars in addition to soundpost plate. Originally had a through-neck, of which only the foot remains; current neck grafted to an unusually long pegbox with holes for 8 pegs (of which the highest and lowest now plugged) and carvings on all sides, topped by a French-style head (clearly not original; perhaps 18th-C.). Extensively restored by G. Hellwig in 1937-38. Back widths 25.5/19.1/30.6. Dendrochronology (by Peter Klein) gives date of 1692 for youngest growth ring on table.Drawing by Ute Singer at museum; restoration report and related correspondence (excerpts p. 340) in Hellwig Nachlaß at GNM, Nuremberg. Museum website: Fingerboard and tailpiece brown with black edges; blond pegs. Purchased in 2007. Hellwig 2011, p. 313 cites it as similar to TieWV 87 (RUH 3), whose body length is only 57.4 cm.

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