DHV:
490
Tourin ID:
LEIPA 10
Size:
Treble
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Leipzig
Johann Christian
Hoffmann
Date:
1728
Label Text:
Joh: Christian Hoffmann. / König. Poln. und Churf. / Sächs. Hoff Instrument und / Lautenmacher. Leipzig 1728. [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Leipzig
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Universität Leipzig
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
795
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Wilhelm Heyer, Cologne; Paul de Wit, Leipzig
Measurements:
Body Length:
39.7
String Length:
37
Rib Depth:
5.3
Upper Width:
20.3
Middle Width:
14.7
Bottom Width:
24.4
Information
Source:
Martius 2015, pp. 352-53; museum to Martius to TGM, 1/07; Kinsky 1912, 2:449
Literature:
Martius 2015, pp. 352-53; Heyde 1986, p. 120; Schrammek 1986, pp. 63-64; Kinsky 1912, 2:449; De Wit 1903, p. 95
Photographs:
Martius 2015, pp. 244 (rosette [color]), 352-53 (FB+S, X-ray of front body only, rosette, label [color]; on museum’s website (front [color]); [unpublished, from museum via K. Martius 1/07: F+S]
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Comments:
Martius JCH 14. Table with single purfling plus ebony edging, rosette, and wide recurve; original, short, integral bass bar. 1-piece back with 2 wings and visible fold line (now flattened out); top block contains remains of original through-neck. Coverted to a viola, then reconverted to a viol (before 1903) without enlarging the ribs, but with neck and head evidently based on other Hoffmann viols; neck, pegbox, head, fingerboard, and tailpiece not original. Dendrochronology (by Micha Beuting) gives date of 1705 for youngest growth ring on table. Back widths 19.8/13.6/24.4; drawing by Ute Singer (2011) at museum. Heyde 1986: closely modeled on a French original, because body proportions make sense only if based on Parisian rather than Saxon units of measurement. (His dimensions 39.4, 20.0/13.9/24.5, 5.8, -.) Schrammek 1986: originally a 5-string viola d’amore without sympathetic strings, “resconstructed” c. 1910 “unter der Leitung von Georg Kinsky” from a viola conversion to a 6-string setup for A tuning, with new neck, fingerboard, pegbox, and head based on Hoffmann’s tenor viol LEIPC 11/ inv. no. 805. Kinsky 1912: “Alt-viola da braccio,” dimensions 39.5, 20/-/24.5, 6, -.