DHV:
1626
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Leipzig
Martin
Hoffmann
Date:
Label Text:
Gaspar da Salo. / a Brescia. A. 15?2 [printed, including full date]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Grenzach-Whylen
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Ekkehard Weber (before 2013); an estate in S. Germany
Measurements:
Body Length:
65.6
String Length:
63
Rib Depth:
13
Upper Width:
31.2
Middle Width:
23
Bottom Width:
37.3
Information
Source:
K. Martius to TGM, 1/14; E. Weber to TGM, 1-2/13
Literature:
[Martius 2015, pp. 344-35; [unpublished restoration report by Christian Gantner, 2010 (received 6/19)]
Photographs:
Martius 2015, pp. 344-45 (FB+S, rosette [color]; also on website of restorer, www.ganterstrings.com, plus head 3/4); [unpublished, from E. Weber: F+B body only, top off, underside of table, rosette, various details (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Martius MH 14. Martius 2015: neck, fingerboard and tailpiece, pegbox, and head (latter based on J.C. Hoffmann in Eisenach) are new, by Christian Johannes Ganter (Basel-Reihen) in 2010. Table with double purfling and multi-level rosette; back with narrow soundpost plate and 3 wide, non-original crossbars; top and bottom blocks and wide corner blocks not original; nothing left of original through-neck. Inscription on underside of table: “Repariert 1967 / H. Wild, Offenburg”. Back widths 30.3/22.1/37.1. Per E. Weber, when found the interior had been “butchered,” causing him to lose interest; but later very nicely restored by a luthier near Basel. Dendrochronology test (by Willi Tegel, for E. Weber) found that table wood came from northwest Bohemia and gave date of 1684 for youngest year ring.