DHV:
904
Tourin ID:
VIENNA 13
Size:
Bass ?
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Padua
Wendelin
Tieffenbrucker ?
Date:
1590 C
Label Text:
“In Padua Vendelinus Tieffenbruker” [printed]; “Vendelinus Tieffenbruker / in Padua” [handwritten, on back of peg-disk]
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
A
Vienna
No. of Strings:
9+4
Collection:
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
SAM 90 (previously 8485 / C.95)
Head:
Peg-disc
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
68
String Length:
Rib Depth:
7.3
Upper Width:
33
Middle Width:
24
Bottom Width:
41.1
Information
Source:
Museum to TGM, 8/96
Literature:
Segerman 2000, pp.22-23; David 1999, pp. 57-59; Moens 1989, pp. 43-44; Moens 1987a, pp. 4-6
Photographs:
Pio 2011, p. 87 (F+B [color]); David 1999, p. 58 (FB+S); Otterstedt 1994, p. 145 (treble shoulder in UV light); Moens 1989, pp. 42-43 (front 3.4, B+S); Moens 1987, p. 351 (3/4); Bletschacher 1978, p. 132; [by TGM, on display: front (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Currently a lira da gamba. Dimples in upper upper and lower bouts, pointed corners, square shoulders (outline not unlike NURN 4 = Vogel violone, 1563). 14 pegs in a pegdisk; 13 strings, 9 on fingerboard; tailgut. Moens 1989 and 1987a (also summarized in David 1999): table arching almost flat, back highly arched; only former has remains of old varnish, along with altered purfling and new (Allgäu-style) F-holes; both show signs of altered outline, which could also explain new wood for both rib shoulders; probably recut from 2 different cellos, with more modern fittings; open woodworm holes in neck and pegbox; handwriting of label not 16th-C.