DHV:
1665
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Samuel
Gilkes
Date:
1812
Label Text:
Samuel Gilkes / fecit London 1812 [printed except 1812]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Leipzig
No. of Strings:
7
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
[bought at an auction]
Measurements:
Body Length:
67.5
String Length:
72.1
Rib Depth:
11.8
Upper Width:
33.5
Middle Width:
24.4
Bottom Width:
40.2
Information
Source:
Owner to TGM, 10-11/14, 2-3/15, 12/15
Literature:
Photographs:
Fritzsch 2020 (F); Fritzsch 2017a (head 3/4 [color]); Fritzsch 2016 (front, head front [B+W]; label [color]); [unpublished, from owner 3/15: body FB+S, neck/head FB+S and body open before restoration, label, FB+S after (color); from owner 10/14: F; B+S body only; pegbox + scroll, ornament at button (color)]
Recordings:
Fritzsch 2020a (19th-C. Viol); Fritzsch 2017 (Concertos); Fritzsch 2017a (JC Bach Quartets); Fritzsch 2016 (Abel)
Auctions:
Comments:
Restored and renecked (for 7 strings) by Bernd Hiller, 2015; pegbox and head copied from the 1815 Gilkes. Back widths 33.1/24.3/40.2. Lütgendorff 2:615 shows a label very similar yet perhaps not identical in the handwritten date; even more similar is the label in a violin sold on eBay Italy “25 feb 2015 08:34:13 CET”.