DHV:
111
Tourin ID:
BERB 10
Size:
Tenor
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Leipzig
Johann Christian
Hoffmann
Date:
1728
Label Text:
Joh: Christian Hoffmann. / Konig. Poln. und Churf. / Saechs. Hoff Instrument / und Lautenmacher Leipzig 1728. [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Berlin
No. of Strings:
Collection:
Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
4518
Head:
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Fritz Wildhagen, Bielefeld, -1956
Measurements:
Body Length:
49.7
String Length:
Rib Depth:
9
Upper Width:
23.6
Middle Width:
17
Bottom Width:
28.6
Information
Source:
Martius 2015, pp. 354-55; Martius to TGM, 1/07; Otto & Adelmann 1975, p. 112
Literature:
MacCracken 2022, p. 88; Martius 2015, pp. 354-55; Otto & Adelmann 1975, p. 112
Photographs:
Martius 2015, pp. 354-55 (F top off, B+S, all body only [color]; label)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Martius JCH 15. Otto & Adelmann 1975: “Vom Instrument wurden die falsch ergänzten Teile (Decke, Hals mit Kopf) entfernt”: evidently now only back and ribs. Martius 2015: replacement table (preserved separately; dendrochronology by Micha Beuting gives date of 1801 for youngest growth ring) has F-holes in style of Ciciliano or Linarol; top block is probably remains of original through-neck; neck not original. 7 plugged holes for hitchpins next to hookbar suggest it once had sympathetic strings. Original corner blocks. Label lost, but photo survives. Offered to Ulrich Rück in 1942 as 3 separate pieces (body, table, and neck/pegbox), but he didn’t buy it (see correspondence with Otto Marx transcribed in Martius 2015; they agreed only back and ribs original). Widths from back; Otto & Adelmann 1975 gave body length 49.7, other dimensions the same.