DHV:
513
Tourin ID:
LEIPB 29
Size:
Treble ?
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Hamburg
Joachim
Tielke
Date:
1690
Label Text:
IOACHIM TIELKE / in Hamburg, An. 1690 [small format, printed except 90]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Leipzig
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Universität Leipzig
Sound Holes:
C*
Catalog Number:
786
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Paul de Wit, Leipzig
Measurements:
Body Length:
34.8
String Length:
30
Rib Depth:
3.9
Upper Width:
15.2
Middle Width:
10.9
Bottom Width:
19.2
Information
Source:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 241-42; Hellwig 1980, pp. 207-9; Kinsky 1912, 2:445
Literature:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 241-42; Köpp 2003; Hellwig 1980, pp. 207-9; Schultz 1929, p.69; Kinsky 1912, 2:445; De Wit 1903, p. 102
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front [color]); Hellwig 2011, pp. 241-42 (F+B, head FB+S [color]); Hellwig 1980, 207-9 (soundhole, back, head side); Kinsky, 2:443 (F+B, head 3/4), 649 (label); De Wit, p. 102 (F+B, head 3/4)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Hellwig 2011, TieWV 057 (viola d’amore); Hellwig 1980, no. 052 (“viola d’amore (?)”). Hellwig 1980: table with sickle-shaped soundholes and single purfling; back (flat with fold) of 4 pieces of palisander [GH] or walnut [FH] and 3 of maple; bottom rib in one piece. Original neck, but reangled; plain pegbox with fluted back; fingerboard and tailpiece (latter probably not original) veneered with tortoise-shell with ivory borders. 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side (not original). Repaired in 1930. Hellwig 2011 adds: 2-piece table; fingerboard originally wedge-shaped; tail gut (now wire). Back widths 15.2/10.9/19.2. Kinsky 1912 dimensions 34.0, 15.5/-/19.3, 3.9, -. Köpp 2000, p. 146: viola d’amore. Tourin: arm viol.