DHV:
1657
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Leipzig
Martin
Hoffmann ?
Date:
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Munich
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
(an elderly cellist in Munich, -2009)
Measurements:
Body Length:
65.3
String Length:
Rib Depth:
12.3
Upper Width:
28.8
Middle Width:
20.1
Bottom Width:
35.7
Information
Source:
K. Martius to TGM, 2/14
Literature:
Photographs:
[Unpublished, from K. Martius, 2/14: FB+S (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Not in Martius 2015. New neck, etc., by Klaus Martius (2011-12) after J.C. Hoffmann 1725 (Bachhaus, Leipzig), replacing too-short one with a high-quality, early 20th-C. male head. No label, but outline and soundhole shape suggest to him it may be by Martin Hoffmann (or perhaps Johann Schmied/Schmidt). Measurements very close to GNM MI 507 (= NURN 25), by M. Hoffmann 1688, and top block has remains of original through-neck, but lack of rosette, inked purfling, and poor-quality wood used for table are uncharacteristic of his work.