DHV:
853
Tourin ID:
TIELK104
1702
Bass
Joachim
Tielke
# of Strings:
Place Made:
D, Hamburg
Body Shape:
Current Location:
D, Hamburg
Sound Holes:
F
Collection:
Private collection
Head:
Catalog Number:
Label Text:
JOACHIM TIELKE // in Hamburg/ An.1702 [large format, printed except 702, altered from printed 16--]
Measurements:
Body Length:
80
String Length:
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
35.5
26.8
44.2
Previous Owner:
Hartwig Groth, Nuremberg, c. 1982- ; Günther Hellwig, Lübeck (in 1980)
Information Source:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 347-48; Hellwig 1980, p. 272
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Comments:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 347-48; Hellwig 1980, p. 272
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.