DHV:
1658
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Leipzig
Johann Christian
Hoffmann
Date:
1730
Label Text:
[damaged and mostly illegible; transcribed onto a new label:] Wortlaut des Originalzettels / Johann Christian Hoffmann / Königl. Poln. und Churfürstl. / Sachs. Hoff- Instrumenten / und Lautenmacher / in Leipzig 173[?]0 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Gera
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Theater und Philharmonie Thüringen
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Paul Grümmer, -1964
Measurements:
Body Length:
60.2
String Length:
62.7
Rib Depth:
13.1
Upper Width:
29.6
Middle Width:
21.1
Bottom Width:
37.9
Information
Source:
Martius 2015, pp. 356-57; K. Martius to TGM, 2-3/14
Literature:
Martius 2015, pp. 356-57
Photographs:
Martius 2015, pp. 356-57 (F+S, B body only, label [color])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Martius JCH 24. 3-piece table with F-holes not original; back with no purfling and non-original wide soundpost plate and 3 crossbars. Upper body shortened by rounding of shoulders, probably when “Reparirt von / Carl August Otto / Bernburg 1826” (handwritten label) to convert it into a small cello; original length probably similar to JCH 26 (1731), viz. 68.9 cm. Neck in style of 1920s-30s; all fittings 20th C., including lion head and sculpted tailpiece with ivory and mother-of-pearl inlays; probably done for Paul Grümmer, certainly before he gave it to his home town. (Second additional label, also handwritten: “Repariert 1967 / Claus Tauscher / Erlbach i Vogtl. / cf. Fa Hug u. Co Zürich / Erlbach”). Back widths 29.5/21.1/37.1