DHV:
219
Tourin ID:
CALD 19
Size:
Treble ?
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Hamburg
Joachim
Tielke
Date:
1686
Label Text:
IOACHIM TIELKE / in Hamburg, An. 1686 [small format, printed except 86]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Oberlin, OH
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Caldwell, Catharina Meints
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Dragon
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Rembert Wurlitzer, New York, -1974
Measurements:
Body Length:
39.4
String Length:
38.1
Rib Depth:
6.4
Upper Width:
19
Middle Width:
14.1
Bottom Width:
24.1
Information
Source:
TGM visit 7/92
Literature:
Caldwell 2012, pp. 74-77; Hellwig 2011, pp. 240-41; Köpp 2003; Hellwig 1980, p. 186
Photographs:
Caldwell 2012, pp. 74-77 (FB+S, head FB+S and 3/4 [color]); Hellwig 2011, pp. 88 (head 3/4 and side [color]), 240 (front body only, head side [color]); [by TGM: 7/92 FB+S, head FB+S; 5/09 FB+S, label (color)]
Recordings:
LeStrange Viols 2018
Auctions:
Comments:
Hellwig 2011, TieWV 038 (viola d’amore); Hellwig 1980, no. 037 (“viola d’amore (?)”). Köpp 2003: less certainly a viola d’amore than the 4 smaller examples by Tielke. Restored by Michael Heale. Hellwig 1980: 3-piece table with double purfling (very close to edges); 2-piece back (flat with fold; formerly, but probably not originally, also folded in lower bout) of bird’s-eye maple with no purfling; outline has been altered (cut down); ribs also of birds-eye maple. Neck and pegbox not original; dimensions 38.6, 18.2/13.3/22.0,-,- (evidently obtained before restoration); Hellwig 2011 adds: thick red-brown overcoating of varnish; dragon head largely identical to those on violin TieWV 46 and baryton TieWV 40; dimensions 39.4, 18.9/14.1/24.1, 6.5, - (back widths 18.3/13.4/23.1) Originally a 5-string viola d’amore, despite unusally deep ribs. (After visit by F. Hellwig in 2008, C. Meints agrees it may have been a viola d’amore, noting that sound has always been strident and un-viol-like; but it definitely had 6 strings when purchased from Wurlitzer.) Caldwell 2012: pegbox original; dimensions 39.0, 18.5/13.7/23.6, 6.3, 38.2.