Contrabass Violin
Object type: Contrabass Violin
Department: Musical Instruments
Culture: American
Artist: Carleen M. Hutchins|Donald Blatter|Thomas Coleman
Artist bio: Springfield, Massachusetts, 1911–2007 Wolfeboro, New Hampshire| |American, born Jersey City, New Jersey 1955
Artist role: Maker|Maker|Maker
Artist nationality: American|American|American
Date: 1985
Medium: Spruce, maple
Dimensions: String length 109.2 cm (43 in.) 
Body length 129.3 cm (51 in.) 
Upper bouts 62.7 cm (24-3/4in.) 
Center bouts 38 cm (15 in.) 
Lower bouts 79.2 cm (31-1/4 in.) 
Rib height 16.7 cm (6-3/4in.) 
Tailpiece length 43.8 cm (17-1/4 in.)
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted
Geography:  Montclair  New Jersey United States  
Credit line: Gift of Carleen M. and Morton A. Hutchins and the Harriet M. Bartlett Fund of the Catgut Acoustical Society, Inc., 1988
Accession year: 1988