1684 Joachim Tielke
Joachim Tielke (1641–1719) of Hamburg is universally recognized as one of the four leading guitar makers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, standing alongside Sellas of Venice, the Voboams of Paris, and Stradivari of Cremona. In addition to guitars (25 extant), his output included violins, lutes, theorbos, viola d’amores, viola da gambas, zithers, pochettes, […]