DHV:
782
Tourin ID:
SCHOLZ 1
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Tölz
Andreas
Jais ?
Date:
17..
Label Text:
Jacobus Stainer Absam / prope Oenipontum fecit Cremona [...] / 1669 [handwritten, partly illegible]
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
USA
New York, NY
No. of Strings:
7
Collection:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
1988.365
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Janos Scholz, New York, 1938-1988; Rudolph Wurlitzer (, no. 8451, with certificate) -1938
Measurements:
Body Length:
68.6
String Length:
64.7
Rib Depth:
11
Upper Width:
31.5
Middle Width:
22.2
Bottom Width:
40.3
Information
Source:
TGM visit 8/92; Monical 2/1989, p. 20
Literature:
Monical 1989a, p. 20
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+B, front 3/4, head side [color]); Monical 1989a, p. 20 (F+S); [unpublished, at Smithsonian: front]; Roy 1984, p. 37 (label)
Recordings:
Davidoff 1982 (Biber); Scholz 1962 (Biber)
Auctions:
Comments:
Label doubtful, but wood is 17C, alpine. Pegbox grafted. Rosette contains unidentified coat of arms. Not in Senn & Roy 1986; Tourin (Roy): not genuine. Moens: table old but of different origin from rest; neck, interior parts not original; his dimensions 68.4, 31.5/21.8/40.5, 11.0, -. 7 pegs but strung with only 6. Roy 1984: label date impossible: at this time Stainer was in jail on heresy charges! Museum’s database: Andreas Jais, Absam, c. 1669 (!); dimensions 68.7, 31.5/22.5/40.3, 11.1, 65.0. On display 5/2012: S. Germany or Austria, c. 1665-75; dendrochronology gives date of 1657 for youngest growth ring on table. (Jais born 1685, worked in Tölz from c. 1713, died in 1753.)