Jacob Stainer, Absam, 1665
Viola: 40045
Labeled, "Jacobus Stainer in Absam / prope Oenipontum 1650."
Back: Two-piece, quarter-cut, with even narrow flaming
Top: One-piece, narrow-grained
Scroll: possibly not original
Varnish: Gold-brown
Length of back: 46.5 cm
Upper bouts: 22.5 cm
Middle bouts: 15.4 cm
Lower bouts: 27.3 cm
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Notes:
"This viola was restored to its original condition c.1900 by Hammig."The History of the Viola, Volume 2, Maurice W. Riley, The History of the Viola, Volume II
Provenance
| Wilhelm Hermann Hammig | |
| until 1897 | W. E. Hill & Sons |
| ... | ... |
| in 1923 | Richard Mendelsohn |
| Wilhelm Hermann Hammig | |
| in 1953 and until 1961 | Hamma & Co. |
| ... | ... |
| 1961-1984 | Laurence C. Witten |
| from 1984 | Shrine to Music, National Music Museum, South Dakota |
Certificates & Documents
- Dendrochronology report: Micha Beuting & Peter Klein (2003) Dating the youngest tree ring to from 1625.
Certificate: Hamma & Co., Stuttgart (1961)
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References
The Strad 1999 Calendar, Orpheus Publications, London (illustrated)- Jacob Stainer "… kayserlicher diener und geigenmacher zu Absom", Rudolf Hopfner, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna (illustrated)
- Jakob Stainer: Leben und Werk des Tiroler Meisters, Walter Senn & Karl Roy, Verlag E. Bochinsky, Frankfurt (illustrated)
- Luthiers Library (illustrated)
- Violins & Violinists, January-February, 1957, Max Möller, William Lewis & Son, Chicago (illustrated)
- The Strad, March, 2010, Newsquest Specialist Media, London (illustrated)
Stainer viola; Shrine to Music Museum- The History of the Viola, Volume II, Maurice W. Riley (illustrated)