DHV:
298
Tourin ID:
GENEV 18
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Hamburg
Joachim
Tielke
Date:
1704 C
Label Text:
Body Shape:
(Guitar)
Current Location:
CH
Geneva
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée d’art et d’histoire
Sound Holes:
Catalog Number:
IM-17
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Fritz Ernst, Geneva, -1969
Measurements:
Body Length:
String Length:
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
Information
Source:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 352-53; PT visit 10/78
Literature:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 352-53; Hellwig 1980, p. 307
Photographs:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 88 (head back), 352 (fingerboard [color])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Hellwig 2011, TieWV 145; Hellwig 1980, no. 122. Only head, neck, and fingerboard (but not tailpiece) are by Tielke; body is not. Pegbox with open-carved back and ivory edging; inlaid fingerboard (tortoiseshell on ivory veneer), reverse-color counterpart of VIC 9. (Not in museum at time of Tourin’s visit.) Hellwig 2011 adds: body dates from late 19th/early 20th century; arched back