DHV:
383
Tourin ID:
HELLG 1

Size:

Bass

Label Text:

Place Made:

A, Absam

Maker:

Jacob

Stainer

Date:

1665

Jacobus Stainer in Absam / Prope OEnipontum 1665 [printed except 5]

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

D, Hamburg

Sound Holes:

F

Collection:

Private collection

No. of Strings:

6

Catalog Number:

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Head:

Animal

Previous Owner:

Hellwig, Nuremberg; N.N., Linz/Donau, -1964; Ritter von Kronenfels, Baden bei Wien (1892)

Measurements:

Body Length:

71

String Length:

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Rib Depth:

13.4

Upper Width:

31.4

Middle Width:

22.5

Bottom Width:

40.8

Information Source:

Senn & Roy 1986, p. 216 (A100)

Literature:

Photographs:

Recordings:

Auctions:

Comments:

Hopfner & Seipel 2003, p. 108 (IV.16); Senn & Roy 1986, p. 216

Hopfner & Seipel 2003, pp. 108 (front), 77 (back); Senn & Roy 1986, pp. 406-08 (F+B, head 3/4, soundhole); Hellwig 1984, p. 92 (back, label)

ter Linden 2002 (Telemann); ter Linden 2000 (Bach II)

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Pegbox and head not original. Exhibited in Vienna, 1892. Hopfner & Seipel: 2-piece table, back and ribs of bird’s-eye maple; overhanging edges. Neck, fingerboard, and tailpiece not original; lion’s head probably 19th-century. Youngest year-ring in table dated 1625; both halves from same tree. Soundpost plate is original; bass bar is not. Dimensions: 71.0, 31.1/20.5 [sic]/40.8, 13.2, -.