DHV:
865
Tourin ID:
TOKYO 5
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
A
Absam
Jacob
Stainer
Date:
1673 C
Label Text:
Jacobus Stainer in Absom / Prope Oenipontum mpia 1652 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
J
Tokyo
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Ueno Gakuen College
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Fritz Wildhagen
Measurements:
Body Length:
68
String Length:
72.7
Rib Depth:
12.8
Upper Width:
30.5
Middle Width:
22.4
Bottom Width:
40.3
Information
Source:
JVdGSA 23 (1986): 29-30
Literature:
JVdGSA 23 (1986): 29-30; Senn & Roy 1986, p. 228 (A107); Lütgendorff 1922, 2:481
Photographs:
JVdGSA 23 (1986): 40-2 (FB+S, label); Senn & Roy 1986, p. 426 (FB+S); Lütgendorff 1922, 1:164 (front)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Extensively restored in Tokyo, 1977 (photos in JVdGSA include 2 taken before and 3 after). Formerly had lion head and narrow(ed?) neck for cello, with shorter string length of 63.7. Also replaced were fingerboard and tailpiece of mahogany edged with ivory (now pine with ebony veneer), boxwood tuning pins (now ebony), and tailgut button (now hookbar). Rosette. Per Lütgendorff, previously had a label attributing it to Marcus Stainer in 1665. Senn & Roy: “Zuschreibung Marcus Steiner” [sic]; JVdGSA: “Possibly by Marcus Stainer. Tyrol; mid-seventeenth century. ... Typical Stainer F-holes.” Per Benjamin Schröder, authentic handwritten labels first used in the late 1660s, so this one is questionable; via T. Muthesius (6/19), he calls it a facsimile, so date not valid.