DHV:
401
Tourin ID:
JONES 1
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Hamburg
Joachim
Tielke
Date:
1695
Label Text:
JOACHIM TIELKE // in Hamburg, An. 1695 [small format, printed except 95]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Berlin
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Sterling Jones, Munich -2014; Studio für alte Musik, Basel, 1968- ; Sidney Locker, New York (dealer); an estate in Pennsylvania
Measurements:
Body Length:
66.4
String Length:
Rib Depth:
11.2
Upper Width:
29.5
Middle Width:
21.6
Bottom Width:
37.4
Information
Source:
Hellwig 2011, p. 308; Hellwig 1980, p. 232; G. Hellwig 1972 (unpublished restoration report)
Literature:
Hellwig 2011, p. 308; Hellwig 1980, p. 232
Photographs:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 50, 308 (label; back decoration [color]; top off body only [B+W]); Haskell 1980, pl. 33 (front 7/8); Hellwig 1980, p. 232 (back ornament); Hellwig 1972 (F+B, top off [body only], head FB+S, bass soundholes, label, details of ornaments on back and neck heel)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Hellwig 2011, TieWV 080; Hellwig 1980, no. 070 (owner: Studio für alte Musik, Basel). Restored by Hellwig in 1972, including new table, neck, fingerboard, and tailpiece. 2-piece back (arched, badly warped) with glued-on carved ornament at top. Pegbox with open-carved back. Dimensions 66.0, 29.6/22.0/37.5, 11.3, -. Hellwig 2011 adds: no purfling on back; peg for top string closest to nut. Back widths 29.5/21.8/37.3. (Ownership update from H. Gröger to TGM, 7/2015.)