DHV:
214
Tourin ID:
CALD 14
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Hamburg
Joachim
Tielke
Date:
1691
Label Text:
JOACHIM TIELKE // in Hamburg/ An. 1691 [large format, printed except 91]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Oberlin, OH
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Caldwell, Catharina Meints
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Harry Oster, Iowa City. IA, -1976; ??, St. Louis, MO
Measurements:
Body Length:
65.8
String Length:
67.7
Rib Depth:
11.3
Upper Width:
30.8
Middle Width:
23
Bottom Width:
38.4
Information
Source:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 288; Muthesius 2005, pp. 178-79; TGM visits 7/92 and 5/09
Literature:
Caldwell 2012, pp. 46-51; Hellwig 2011, p. 288; Muthesius 2005, pp. 178-79; Hellwig 1980, p. 214
Photographs:
Caldwell 2012, pp. 46-51 (FB+S, head FB+S, carved neck heel, original neck, label [color]; top off, underside of table, top block]; Hellwig 2011, pp. 288-89 (top off body only [B+W], B+S body only [color])); Muthesius 2005, p. 179 (outside face of top block [no neck] and shoulders); [by TGM: 7/92 back, body with table removed, underside of table, label, top block, inside corner; 5/09 FB+S (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Hellwig 2011, TieWV 063; Hellwig 1980, no. 058. 2-piece table with double purfling and original bass bar; back (arched and bent) with 7 strips of palisander and 6 of maple, ribs with 4 and 3; dimensions 64.0, 31.0/33.0 [sic]/36.5, 12.4, -. When seen 7/92 was badly in need of repair and had been disassembled for some time (previous owner had begun some restoration work); approximate dimensions then 64.0, 31.0/23.2/38.2, 11.5, -. Neck was narrow and cello-style; maybe original but shortened; only a fragment of bass side of pegbox present. Bass bar, said then to be one of 2 surviving by Tielke (but now see Hellwig 2011), is 49.0 long, 1.2 max. height, 0.9 max. width; grain runs across length. Muthesius 2005: restored by Ingo Muthesius in 2001; top block badly damaged but kept (neck attached by tapered dowel inserted diagonally); non-original bottom block replaced; damaged uppermost 24 cm of table also replaced. Hellwig 2011 adds: 3-piece table; dark stripes microscopically identified as Dalbergia nigra (Rio-palisander); head, pegbox, and neck by Ingo Muthesius, 2001; fragment of original neck foot and pegbox now preserved separately. Dimensions 66, 30.8/22.9/38.2, 11.4 (back widths 30.0/22.7/37.9). Caldwell 2012 dimensions: 65.7, 30.7/22.2/38.0, 11.1, 67.7.