DHV:
824
Tourin ID:
STOCK 23
Size:
Bass
Label Text:
Place Made:
D, Leipzig
Maker:
Johann Christian
Hoffmann
Date:
Joh: Christian Hoffman / Königl. Poln. und Churf. / Sächs. Hof Instrument und / Lautenmacher in Leipzig [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
S, Stockholm
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Swedish Museum of Performing Arts
No. of Strings:
(4)
Catalog Number:
M2323
Head:
Scroll
Previous Owner:
Erik Gahnbäck, Lidingö, Stockholm, -1949
Measurements:
Body Length:
69.8
String Length:
67.0-68.5
Rib Depth:
12.6
Upper Width:
31.2
Middle Width:
22.5
Bottom Width:
38.3
Information Source:
Martius 2015, pp. 362-63; museum website; museum to TGM, 4/04; PT visit 10/78 [not seen]
Literature:
Martius 2015, pp. 362-63;
Photographs:
Martius 2015, pp. 362-63 (front, label [color]); on museum’s website (front); [unpublished, from museum, 4/04 (FB+S)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Martius JCH 28. Converted to a cello. Table with single purfling and ebony edging, medium arching with nice recurve; bass bar perhaps old. Back with very wide soundpost plate and 3 crossbars, not original. Wide corner blocks. Label type suggests date of 1730-31, but probably built a few years earlier. Scroll and grafted pegbox probably early 19th-C., neck more recent, perhaps documented by pencil inscriptions on inside of table and back: “Talinn / A. Puwel / 1925”. Museum’s dimensions 69.4, 31.1/22.7/38.3, 12.5, 67.5-68.5.