DHV:
249
Tourin ID:
EIS 01
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Weimar
Jakob ?
Steinberg
Date:
1674
Label Text:
Jacob stin Berg / in Weimar 1674 [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Eisenach
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Bach-Haus
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
33 (formerly 39)
Head:
Head
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Aloys Obrist, Weimar -1910
Measurements:
Body Length:
66.5
String Length:
71.0?
Rib Depth:
12.5
Upper Width:
30
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
36.8
Information
Source:
PT visit 10/78
Literature:
Heyde 1976, p.72; Breidert & Freyse 1964, p. 33
Photographs:
[line drawing in Breidert & Freyse 3rd ed. 1939, omitted in 4th ed. 1964]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Neck not original. Rosette. Lower body edge shortened and rounded as part of 19th-C. cello conversion that also added color painting all over; reconverted after 1911 (using a pegbox made c. 1880) and painting removed. Perhaps only back by Steinberg; front and ribs from 1st half of 18th C. Repair labels: “Paul Herrmann / Obersdorf, Reuss j.L. / reparirt Oktober 1884”; “C.H.C. Schmidt in Wurzbach 1830” [in pencil on inside of back]. Body dimensions from B+F 1964 (Heyde 1976 gives only BL and SL).