DHV:
840
Tourin ID:
TIELK 063, BOEV 1
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Hamburg
Joachim
Tielke
Date:
1692
Label Text:
JOACHIM TIELKE // in Hamburg/ An. 1692 [large format, printed except 92]
Body Shape:
Current Location:
N
Kapp
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Toten Museum
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
4785
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Margit Pettersen, née Rognstad
Measurements:
Body Length:
68
String Length:
Rib Depth:
12
Upper Width:
38.6
Middle Width:
21.6
Bottom Width:
36.4
Information
Source:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 296-97; Hellwig 1980; museum to PT 4/79
Literature:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 296-97; Hellwig 1980, p. 224
Photographs:
Hellwig 2011, p. 296 (head 3/4 [color])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Hellwig 2011, TieWV 069; Hellwig 1980, no. 063. Table not original (made in 1861). Converted to a cello; pegbox shortened, fingerboard and tailpiece not original. Back and ribs in poor condition (cracks and worm damage). Only body length given. Hellwig 2011 adds: 2-piece back (arched) with no purfling; bass-side bottom rib replaced in birch; neck grafted; incised decoration on front edges of pegbox planed off. Back widths 28.5/21.7/37.4. Repair inscription (in pencil on soundpost plate): “Nyt Laag [=new table] 1864 / Udfardiget af O. Rognstad”; he was a doctor, violinist, and amateur composer in Toten who had the replacement table (with F-holes) made in 1864.