DHV:
383
Tourin ID:
HELLG 1
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
A
Absam
Jacob
Stainer
Date:
1665
Label Text:
Jacobus Stainer in Absam / Prope OEnipontum 1665 [printed except 5]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Hamburg
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Friedemann Hellwig, Nuremberg; N.N., Linz/Donau, -1964; Ritter von Kronenfels, Baden bei Wien (1892)
Measurements:
Body Length:
71
String Length:
Rib Depth:
13.4
Upper Width:
31.4
Middle Width:
22.5
Bottom Width:
40.8
Information
Source:
Senn & Roy 1986, p. 216 (A100)
Literature:
Hopfner & Seipel 2003, p. 108 (IV.16); Senn & Roy 1986, p. 216
Photographs:
Hopfner & Seipel 2003, pp. 108 (front), 77 (back); Senn & Roy 1986, pp. 406-08 (F+B, head 3/4, soundhole); Hellwig 1984, p. 92 (back, label)
Recordings:
ter Linden 2002 (Telemann); ter Linden 2000 (Bach II)
Auctions:
Comments:
Pegbox and head not original. Exhibited in Vienna, 1892. Hopfner & Seipel: 2-piece table, back and ribs of bird’s-eye maple; overhanging edges. Neck, fingerboard, and tailpiece not original; lion’s head probably 19th-century. Youngest year-ring in table dated 1625; both halves from same tree. Soundpost plate is original; bass bar is not. Dimensions: 71.0, 31.1/20.5 [sic]/40.8, 13.2, -.