Karr Violin Bow
date: label: date made
content: before 1925
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This bow was made by Albert H. Karr in Kansas City, Missouri, before 1925. It is a violin bow with a round beefwood stick with a plastic face, weighted black plastic frog with pearl eye, white plastic slide and metal ferrule bent from one piece and cut to lock the ends in place, and a plastic button. The bow is stamped:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>A.H.KARR K.C.U.S.</p>
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content: <p>Albert Homer Karr (1885-1971) was an American bow and violin maker (1885-1971). For most of his career, Karr was the proprietor of musical instrument shop in Kansas City, Missouri. In addition to repairing and selling other instruments, Karr made over 1,300 violins during his career and several dozen handmade violin bows. During WWII, Karr was contracted by the U. S. government to produce quality student bows.</p>
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content: <p><i>The Violinist</i> magazine for January 1921 featured an article about Albert H. Karr as well as an advertisement of his shop:</p>
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content: <p><b>ALBERT H. KARR</b><br>Exclusive Violin Shop<br>306 East Tenth Str., Kansas City, Missouri.</p>
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content: <p>The Albert H. Karr Handmade Violins, finest<br>imported wood, sent at my expense on ten days’ trial<br>to responsible parties.<br>Large collections of old Violins including a Stradi-<br>varius, a Guarnerius, an Amati, a Villaume and a<br>Lupot.</p>
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content: <p>One of the finest equipped shops in the United<br>States for repair and adjustment of fine old<br>instruments. Mr. Karr attends to this work per-<br>sonally. All work guaranteed.<br>Correspondence invited.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, Kansas City
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Janos Scholz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.71.09
label: catalog number
content: 71.09
label: accession number
content: 292442
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bow
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: beefwood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: horsehair (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in x 1/2 in; 74.295 cm x 3.175 cm x 1.27 cm