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DHV:
186
Tourin ID:
BRUS 55

Size:

Bass

Place Made:

Maker:

D

Hamburg

Joachim

Tielke

Date:

1701

Label Text:

JOACHIM TIELKE // in Hamburg/ An. 1701 [small format, printed except 701, altered from printed 16--]

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

B

Brussels

No. of Strings:

6

Collection:

Musée des instruments de musique

Sound Holes:

C

Catalog Number:

0229

Head:

Female

Private Owner:

Previous Owner:

Adrian François Servais, Brussels

Measurements:

Body Length:

68.3

String Length:

68

Rib Depth:

13.3

Upper Width:

30.5

Middle Width:

22.3

Bottom Width:

38

Information

Source:

Hellwig 2011, pp. 339-41; PT visits 6/77 & 9/78 (?)

Literature:

Hellwig 2011, pp. 339-41; Hellwig 1980, pp. 269-70; Mahillon 2/1893, 1:323; Loan 1885, p. 34

Photographs:

On museum’s website (FB+S, details of tailpiece [color]; F+S); Hellwig 2011, pp. 339-40 (FB+S, head FB+S and 3/4, hookbar, tailpiece [color]); Moens 2000, p. 16 (F [color]); Haine 1989, pp. 106-07 (front, head); Hellwig 1980, p. 270 (F+B); Montagu 1979, p. 77 (front 7/8 [color]); Hogwood 1978, p. 7 (F+B); Bragard 1968, pl. IV.5 (front 3/4); Baines 1966, pl. 116-7 (F+B); Hipkins & Gibb 1888, plate XIX (F+B, head side [color])

Recordings:

Auctions:

Comments:

Hellwig 2011, TieWV 121; Hellwig 1980, no. 101. Table with ivory edging and double purfling; back (arched) is 13 pieces of palisander separated by thin ivory strips, ribs 8-piece, with ivory edging. Head and pegs are ivory; pegbox with open-carved back, neck, fingerboard (open-carved from neck foot to lower end), carved neck heel, and tailpiece (in the form of two intertwined snakes) veneered with ivory; hookbar of 3 ivory + 2 ebony strips. Dimensions 68.0. 30.5/22.2/38.0, 13.2, -. (Baines 1966, p. 18: “Back of rosewood with ivory fillets. Ivory neck, head and fittings including tailpiece in the form of a cornucopia.”) Shown in Brussels exhibition catalogues, 1972 and 1974, both ed. by von de Maeyer. Hellwig 2011 adds: handwritten on underside of fingerboard: “réparé par Jacques Bernard ... / le 15-12-1958 / Liege.” 2-piece table; ouer strips of ribs wider than others; facial features of head only distantly related to wooden ones from same period, so probably by a different carver. Back widths 30.3/22.4/37.9 (upper front width “20.5,” surely a typo for 30.5). Very similar tailpiece on TieWV 89 (1696).

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