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Joachim Tielke's instruments
No other instrument maker has produced such a wide variety of types. There are bell citterns, mandoras, lutes, angelicas, theorboes (see the remarks on page "Lutes"), pochettes, violins, violoncellos, viole d'amore wihtout sympathetic strings, viols and barytons.
All instruments from the Tielke workshop have in common the high quality of their manufacture, although there is a certain variation in the quality of marquetry and the engraving. This obviously reflects the various suppliers, also the client's demands and his readiness to pay an adequate price. This may also be true for the use of ivory for the carved heads of some of the viols.
Among other matters the new edition will focus on the careful comparison of the decoration of the various instruments, both as an aid in dating unsigned instruments and for distinguishing the craftsmen and artists contributing to the manufacture of the instruments. Stilistic differences are already discernible at the current state of research.
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