DHV:
1740
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
Date:
Label Text:
Body Shape:
VIol
Current Location:
D
Bamberg
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Ernst Obermayer, Bamberg
Measurements:
Body Length:
64.5
String Length:
64.7
Rib Depth:
13
Upper Width:
32
Middle Width:
22.2
Bottom Width:
39
Information
Source:
M. Ruhland to TGM, 11/23
Literature:
Photographs:
[Unpublished, from M. Ruhland 11/23: FB+S, top of back (color)]
Recordings:
Ruhland 1969 (Isaac)
Auctions:
Comments:
On 1969 record sleeve, listed as “by Joh. Gottfried Klemm, Radeberg, c. 1760,” but M. Ruhland says no label “and we do not know why and how our father identified it as a Klemm.” Shoulders almost square; darker added wood on back reveals it (but not table?) was originally less so. Body corners unpointed; F-holes quite far from edges. Scroll-shaped decorations emerging from perimeter purfling in middle of upper bout on both table and back, with similar squiggly decorations at top of back and on sides of neck heel; white diamond-shaped decoration in middle of tailpiece; rosette hidden by fingerboard.