DHV:
853
Tourin ID:
TIELK104
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Hamburg
Joachim
Tielke
Date:
1702
Label Text:
JOACHIM TIELKE // in Hamburg/ An.1702 [large format, printed except 702, altered from printed 16--]
Body Shape:
Current Location:
D
Hamburg
No. of Strings:
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
Head:
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Hartwig Groth, Nuremberg, c. 1982- ; Günther Hellwig, Lübeck (in 1980)
Measurements:
Body Length:
80
String Length:
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
35.5
Middle Width:
26.8
Bottom Width:
44.2
Information
Source:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 347-48; Hellwig 1980, p. 272
Literature:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 347-48; Hellwig 1980, p. 272
Photographs:
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Hellwig 2011, TieWV 130; Hellwig 1980, no. 104. Table not original, has F-holes; 2-piece back; both now with overhanging edges; ribs cut down, body outline altered by rounding shoulders for cello conversion. “An unrepairable torso...of interest only for the labels.” Repair labels: “...von J.H. Cattus 1804. Cassel” [handwritten]; “Reparirt v. A.E.W. Cattus. / Frankfurt a / M 1831”. Hellwig 2011 adds: original state of table impossible to reconstruct; F holes are later alteration; original dimensions are estimated based on the back, using calipers, much bigger than any other known Tielke viol, by amount equivalent to a whole tone or minor third; unclear how it would have been tuned or used musically. Hellwig 2020: reconstructed by Reinhard Fischer in 2019 “zu einem kleinen Bass-Instrument”.